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Tarif Khalidi (; born 24 January 1938) is a Palestinian historian who now holds the Shaykh Zayid Chair in Islamic and Arabic Studies at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon.American University of Beirut (AUB), Tarif Khalidi biographical sketch . Retrieved 21 November 2009.
Khalidi's son, Muhammad Ali Khalidi, is a philosophy professor at York University. His daughter, Aliya Khalidi, is a lecturer at the Lebanese American University. The Khalidi family has lived in Jerusalem since the eleventh century and is noted for a long line of judges and scholars. Tarif's father was principal of the Government Arab College in Jerusalem from 1925 until 1948.Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs, Jerusalem, Palestinian Personalities . He also served as Deputy Director of Education under the British Mandate. He was the author of several works on educational theory and on Palestinian history.
Khalidi's mother came from a Beiruti political family.S. Rami, Jerusalemites.org, "Memoirs of Anbara Salam al-Khalidi" , 21 November 2009. She was a pioneer feminist, activist and writer; and the first Muslim woman in Greater Syria (Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine) to publicly remove her veil in 1927.American University of Beirut, CAMES, 21 March 2007 Interview with Anbara Salam al-Khalidi. She also translated several literary works into Arabic, including Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and published her memoirs in 1978.'Jawla fil Dhikrayat Baynah Lubnan wa Filastin' (A Tour of Memories of Lebanon and Palestine), Beirut: al-Nahar, 1978.
Khalidi and his family had their home stolen by settlers in April 1948 and sought refuge in Beirut, Lebanon.See also: Ilan Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Oxford: Oneworld, 2007) Chapters 2–6; and Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
Khalidi received a PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of Chicago in 1970.University of Chicago Magazine: Class Notes, Books by Alumni, 21 November 2009. That year he returned to AUB as an assistant professor in the History Department. He taught at AUB through the Lebanese Civil War with a brief departure from 1985 to 1986 to become a senior research associate at St. Antony's College, Oxford.
In 1996 he was named the Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic and a fellow of King's College, Cambridge as well as director of the Center of Middle Eastern Studies there.American University of Beirut Press "About the Editor" , 21 November 2009.
He returned to AUB again in 2002 to occupy his position as Shaykh Zayid Chair at the Center for Arab and Middle East Studies.American University of Beirut, Tarif Khalidi biographical sketch . Retrieved 21 November 2009.
Khalidi wrote an influential paper on Palestinian Historiography from 1900 to 1948 in which he argued that much of the historical writing came to centre on the history of the Arabs and of Palestine, in an attempt to re-define the place that Palestine occupied in the Arab world in general and to emphasise its ties to Egypt and Syria in particular. Zachary Foster, Arab historiography in Mandatory Palestine, 1920—1948" (unpublished MA Thesis, Georgetown University, 2011), 3
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