11 Lives Stories from Palestinian Exiles

Muhammad Ali Khalidi is Presidential Professor of Philosophy at CUNY Graduate Center, where he teaches and publishes mainly in the philosophy of science, especially cognitive science.  He also does research on Arabic-Islamic philosophy from the classical period.  In addition, he has written on various aspects of the question of Palestine, including Palestinian refugee rights, the ethics of war, the right of political self-determination, and the ethics of boycott.  His edited volume, Manifestations of Identity: The Lived Reality of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon, was published by the Institute of Palestine Studies in 2010.  He has translated a wide range of texts from Arabic into English, notably the collection, Medieval Islamic Philosophical Writings (Cambridge University Press, 2005).  He holds a PhD in Philosophy from Columbia University and a BS in Physics from the American University of Beirut.  He was born in Lebanon to a Lebanese mother and a Palestinian father.