Palestinian scholar named Walid Khalidi passed away - إِنَّا لِلّهِ وَإِنَّـا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعونَ

ٱلسَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ ٱللَّٰهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ

إِنَّا لِلّهِ وَإِنَّـا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعونَ - Inna Lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un

An important Palestinian scholar named Walid Khalidi died on March 8, 2026, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was 100 years old. He helped keep records of the 1948 Nakba and helped start the Institute for Palestine Studies in 1963. Khalidi went to Harvard and Oxford and wrote important books like "Before their diaspora" and "All That Remains," which were about how Palestinian villages were destroyed and how the 1948 war was fought. His work changed the way scholars looked at the Palestinian story and started a practice of thorough academic documentation.