Ahmad Samih Khalidi

Dr Ahmed Khalidi, a Senior Associate Member of St Antony's College, Oxford, has written extensively about Arab politics, regional security and the Palestinian national struggle. He has also advised the Palestinian leadership on negotiations with the Israelis.

Welcome to the Palestine archipelago

Trump’s so called “deal of the century” is an assault on the Palestinian narrative even before it is an assault on their rights.

By Ahmad Samih Khalidi

/ 4 Mar 2020

The coming struggle over Palestine

We may now be moving towards a renewed conflict or struggle over the entire land of Palestine/Israel between various manifestations of Palestinian nationalism on the one hand and Zionism on the other.

By Ahmad Samih Khalidi

/ 22 Jul 2014

Palestine, peoples and borders in the new Middle East map

Today’s Sunni/Shiite regional war is the direct product of the Bush/Blair war on Iraq. The divide is all the more dangerous because of the Levant’s confessional mosaic. These events are changing the very nature of the states in the region, and the peoples that lie within them. Where do Palestine’s

By Ahmad Samih Khalidi

/ 29 May 2013

Revolutionary change in the Arab world: what prospects for Palestinians?

It may be that the era of Palestinian nationalism as it was born, post-1948, is coming to an end. Instead we may be heading in a new direction of unity and common identity across boundaries; 1948, 1967, Diaspora - a form of unity of ‘condition’.

By Ahmad Samih Khalidi

/ 21 Oct 2011