"His landmark book All That Remains, published in 1992, catalogued how more than 400 Palestinian villages were destroyed or depopulated during the first Arab-Israeli war and combined historical research, maps and testimonies to reconstruct the lives of communities that had disappeared."
"The IPS described Khalidi as a pioneer in uncovering many long-concealed features that explained how the Zionist movement succeeded in occupying Palestine in 1948, adding that in the 1960s, he was the first to reveal its master plan for the occupation."
"Khalidi was perhaps best known for his meticulous documentation of the destruction of Palestinian villages during the Nakba (catastrophe), the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by Zionist militias in 1948."
Walid Khalidi, born in Jerusalem in 1925, was a prominent Palestinian historian whose scholarly work fundamentally shaped understanding of the Nakba. He graduated from Oxford University in 1951 and taught political studies at the American University of Beirut until 1982, later becoming a research fellow at Harvard University. Khalidi co-founded the Institute for Palestine Studies in 1963, which became a leading research center. His most significant contribution was meticulously documenting the destruction of Palestinian villages during the 1948 ethnic cleansing, culminating in his landmark 1992 book All That Remains, which catalogued over 400 destroyed or depopulated villages using historical research, maps, and testimonies. He was recognized as a pioneer in revealing the Zionist movement's strategies for occupying Palestine.
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