Tarif Khalidi (b.1938), scholar
Tarif Khalidi (b.1938) is a Palestinian Lebanese scholar.
Biography
Tarif Khalidi was born in Jerusalem on January 24, 1938.
His family left Palestine in 1948 after the birth of the State of Israel, and sought refuge in Beirut, Lebanon.
After studying in England at Haileybury College in Hertford and University College in Oxford, he earned his PhD in 1970 from the University of Chicago, IL.
Since 1970, he has been teaching at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon with brief departures from 1985 to 1986 (when he was a Senior Research Associate at St. Antony’s College, Oxford) and from 1996 to 2002 (when he was named the Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge and served there as director of the Center of Middle Eastern Studies).
He now holds the Shaykh Zayid Chair in Islamic and Arabic Studies at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon.