Rashid Khalidi
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this comprehensive social history of Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), Robert McCaughey combines archival research with oral testimony and contemporary interviews to build both a critical and celebratory portrait of one of the oldest engineering schools in the United States. McCaughey follows the evolving, occasionally rocky, and now integrated relationship between SEAS's engineers and the rest of the Columbia...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A history of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict told from the Palestinian perspective, arguing the period since the Balfour Declaration of 1917 has amounted to a hundred years of colonial war against the Palestinians.
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
The story of the Palestinian search to establish a state begins in the era of British control over Palestine and stretches between the two world wars, when colonial control of the region became increasingly unpopular and power began to shift toward the United States. In this crucial period, and in the years immediately following World War II, Palestinian leaders were unable to achieve the long-cherished goal of establishing an independent state--a...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
An examination of the failure of the United States as a broker in the Palestinian Israeli peace process, through three key historical moments. Khalidi zeroes in on the United States' role as a purportedly impartial, honest broker in 35 years of a failed Palestinian Israeli peace process.
