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Hitti was born in Ottoman Lebanon into a Maronite Christian family, in the village of Shemlan some 25 km southeast from Beirut, up in the Christian-majority Mount Lebanon.
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Hitti was born in Ottoman Lebanon into a Maronite Christian family, in the village of Shemlan some 25 km southeast from Beirut, up in the Christian-majority Mount Lebanon.
After graduating in 1908 he taught at the American University of Beirut before moving to Columbia University where he earned his Doctor of Philosophy in 1915 and taught Semitic languages.
He almost single-handedly created the discipline of Arabic Studies in the United States. Education and academic career
After World War I he returned to AUB and taught there until 1926. In February 1926 he was offered a Chair at Princeton University, which he held until he retired in 1954.
He was both Professor of Semitic Literature and Chairman of the Department of Oriental Languages.
After formal retirement he accepted a position at Harvard University. He also taught in the summer schools at the University of Utah and George Washington University in Washington, District of Columbia He subsequently held a research position at the University of Minnesota.
= Opinion on Arab-Jewish conflict over Palestine In 1944 before a United States House committee, Hitti gave testimony in support of the view that there was no historical justification for a Jewish homeland in Palestine. His testimony was reprinted in the Princeton Herald.
Hitti then published a response and Einstein and Kahler concluded the debate in the Princeton Herald with their second response.
In 1945 Hitti served as an adviser to the Iraqi delegation at the San Francisco Conference which established the United Nations. In 1946, Hitti was the first Arab-American witness at the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine. Hitti..
Hitti was a relative of Christa McAuliffe, a teacher-astronaut who was killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster on January 28, 1986.
McAuliffe"s mother was Hitti"s niece.
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Explained that there was actually no such entity as Palestine - never had been. lieutenant was historically part of Syria, and "the Sunday schools have done a great deal of harm to us because by smearing the walls of classrooms with maps of Palestine, they associate it with the Jews in the minds of the average American and Englishman". He asserted that Zionism was an imposition on the Arabs of an alien way of life which they resented and to which they would never submit.
Bartley Crum, an American member of the committee, recalled that.