Nov 02 2008
This Bad Era Will Soon Be Over
This Bad Era Will Soon Be Over
Not that professor Rashid Khalidi of Columbia University needs my help, but I couldn’t help staying quiet as the Republican smear machine picked on this soft-speaking American of Palestinian origin.
I first met Professor Khalidi in the old city of Jerusalem. He was on a multi year summer mission to revamp the Khalidi — library one of the oldest libraries in Jerusalem. His effort was to restore really old manuscripts and provide global academics with the access to those rare documents. I am not sure whether the reported funding by the IRI (the International Republican Institute) which McCain headed at the time was for this project or another, but clearly Professor Khalidi has and continues to be a hard-working academic and researcher.
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