[Reader-list] Fwd: The Long 20th Century: The View from the Middle East (Golden Jubilee Lecture by Rashid Khalidi)

[Praveen Rai]

Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

invites you to a Golden Jubilee Lecture



*The Long 20th Century: *

*The View from the Middle East*

by* Rashid Khalidi*



*Achin Vanaik* will Chair

Thursday, 20 March 2014, 6.30 pm

CSDS Seminar Hall,

29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110054





The lecture will propose a re-examination of the history of the 20th
century in light of a slightly different perspective than the usual
Euro-American one. This requires first considering the ingrained habits of
mind and well-entrenched structures for the production of knowledge that
have produced the usual approach to this history. It will also consider
briefly how the Middle East in particular comes in when we think
differently about the history of the 20th century.



*Rashid Khalidi* is Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia
University, and editor of the *Journal of Palestine Studies. *He was
President of the Middle East Studies Association and an advisor to the
Palestinian delegation to the 1991-1993 Arab-Israeli peace negotiations.



He is the author of *Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. Undermined Peace in
the Middle East (2013)*, *Sowing Crisis: American Dominance and the Cold
War in the Middle East (2009),* *The Iron Cage: The Story of the
Palestinian Struggle for Statehood (2006)*, *Palestinian Identity: The
Construction of Modern National Consciousness* (rev. ed. 2010), and *Under
Siege: PLO Decisionmaking during the 1982 War* (rev. ed. 2014).



*Achin Vanaik *is Professor at the Political Science Department, University
of Delhi.


Praveen Rai
Academic Secretary
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
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