المكتبة الخالدية في القدس، 1720م – 2001م

Walid Khalidi is an Oxford University-educated Palestinian historian who has written extensively on the Palestinian exodus. He is a co-founder of the Institute for Palestine Studies 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 Suez. He was Professor of Political Studies at the American University of Beirut until 1982, and thereafter a research fellow at the Harvard Center for International Affairs. He has also taught at Princeton University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has been influential in scholarship, institutional development, and diplomacy. His academic work has played a key role in shaping both Palestinian and broader Arab reactions to the question of Palestine. His numerous publications include:

- From Haven to Conquest: Readings in Zionism and the Palestine Problem until 1948 (Institute for Palestine Studies, 1971)

- Conflict and Violence in Lebanon: Confrontation in the Middle East (Harvard University Press, 1983)

- Before Their Diaspora: A Photographic History of the Palestinians, 1876-1948 (Institute for Palestine Studies, 1984)

- All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948 (Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992)

- Palestine Reborn (I. B. Tauris, 1992)

- The Ownership of the U.S. Embassy Site in Jerusalem (Institute for Palestine Studies, 2000)