Walid Ahmad Salih Khalidi (1925-2026)

In Erinnerung an den großen Historiker und „politischen Menschen“, hier die Würdigung durch den Educational Bookshop in Ost-Jerusalem.

„With the passing of Walid Khalidi, Palestine loses one of its most faithful custodians of memory. Born in Jerusalem (1925), Khalidi devoted a lifetime to rescuing a shattered landscape from oblivion, restoring through patient scholarship the names, lives, and textures of a world others sought to erase. He wrote and edited more than twenty books; among them, Before Their Diaspora and the monumental All That Remains stand as seminal works. The institution he helped build, the Institute for Palestine Studies, embodies his conviction that history can be an act of quiet defiance—a refusal to allow villages to vanish into statistics or lives to dissolve into silence. His passing marks the end of a rare intellectual life, yet Palestinians will continue documenting their past and charting their future; the Palestine he preserved in words endures, steadfast in the memory he refused to surrender. We extend our condolences to ourselves, to our book community, and to his family—dear friends and colleagues.“

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