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Prominent historian cancels course at Columbia University over Trump deal

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Rashid Khalidi in New York in 2017. He said the deal with Trump had turned Columbia into an ‘anti-university’. Photograph: Pacific Press Media Production Corp./Alamy

Historian Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said professor emeritus of modern Arab studies at Columbia University, has cancelled plans to teach this fall in response to the school’s recent agreement with the Trump administration.

Khalidi made the announcement in an open letter to Columbia’s acting president published in the Guardian on Friday.

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