Walid Khalidi (Arabic: وليد خالدي, born 1925) is a Palestinian historian who has written extensively on the Palestinian exodus. He is a co-founder of the Institute for Palestine Studies, established in Beirut in December 1963 as an independent research and publishing center focusing on the Palestine problem and the Arab–Israeli conflict, and was its general secretary until 2016.
Khalidi's first teaching post was at Oxford, a position he resigned from in 1956 in protest at the British invasion of...