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...Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said professor of Arab studies at Columbia, is one of four candidates being considered for a position as chair in Contemporary Middle East Studies at Princeton...
Over the past weeks, Jewish students and alumni of Princeton have voiced concern over Khalidi’s potential appointment to university administrators, according to The Daily Princetonian. Critics allege that Khalidi is a staunch supporter of the Palestinian cause, and fear that he would advocate his own political views in the classroom...
...Walid Khalidi, a research associate at CMES, outlined problems the coalition will encounter in attempting to establish the "new world order," such as pan-Arabic support for Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, the "legacy of hatred" between Iraq and Kuwait, the power of Israel, and economic strife in many areas of the Middle East...
...Controller Andreas Georgiades was impressed by the gunmen's poise. "They were very calm, very cool," he said. "Other hijackers I have dealt with were angry and shouted. But you wouldn't believe these latest ones would kill someone in cold blood." Kill they did, however. Two passengers -- Abdullah Khalidi, 25, and Khalid Ayoub Bandar, 20, both Kuwaitis -- were shot to death and dumped on the tarmac...
...symposium was also very interesting and encouraging, and above all a reminder that there are still in Israel people who hold the right direction and would exercise it when the time comes. The meeting with some of them here at Harvard was for me, to put it in Prof. Khalidi's words, "a breath of fresh air" and a good hope for a better future...