Rashid Khalidi, author of "Resurrectinge Empire" and "Palestinian Identity", holds the Edward Said Chair in Arab Studies at Columbia Univeristy, where he heads the Middle East Institute. He has written more than eighty articles [and five books] on Middle Eastern History and politics, as well as op-ed pieces in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and The Nation. He lives in New York.

• Introduction: Writing Middle Eastern History in a Time of Historical Amnesia1. Arab Society in Mandatory Palestine2. The Palestinians and the British Mandate3. A Failure of Leadership4. The Revolt, 1948, and Afterwards5. Fateh, the PLO, and the PA: The Palestinian Para-State6. Stateless in Palestine

"A work of forceful historical analysis written in a spirit of self-examination . . . 'The Iron Cage' compels us to reflect more deeply on the problems that continue to bedevil the Palistinain movement."

Rashid Khalidi, author of "Resurrectinge Empire" and "Palestinian Identity", holds the Edward Said Chair in Arab Studies at Columbia Univeristy, where he heads the Middle East Institute. He has written more than eighty articles [and five books] on Middle Eastern History and politics, as well as op-ed pieces in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and The Nation. He lives in New York.

• Introduction: Writing Middle Eastern History in a Time of Historical Amnesia1. Arab Society in Mandatory Palestine2. The Palestinians and the British Mandate3. A Failure of Leadership4. The Revolt, 1948, and Afterwards5. Fateh, the PLO, and the PA: The Palestinian Para-State6. Stateless in Palestine

"A work of forceful historical analysis written in a spirit of self-examination . . . 'The Iron Cage' compels us to reflect more deeply on the problems that continue to bedevil the Palistinain movement."

Rashid Khalidi, author of "Resurrectinge Empire" and "Palestinian Identity", holds the Edward Said Chair in Arab Studies at Columbia Univeristy, where he heads the Middle East Institute. He has written more than eighty articles [and five books] on Middle Eastern History and politics, as well as op-ed pieces in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and The Nation. He lives in New York.

• Introduction: Writing Middle Eastern History in a Time of Historical Amnesia1. Arab Society in Mandatory Palestine2. The Palestinians and the British Mandate3. A Failure of Leadership4. The Revolt, 1948, and Afterwards5. Fateh, the PLO, and the PA: The Palestinian Para-State6. Stateless in Palestine

"A work of forceful historical analysis written in a spirit of self-examination . . . 'The Iron Cage' compels us to reflect more deeply on the problems that continue to bedevil the Palistinain movement."