Ismail Ragib Khalidi (Arabic: إسماعيل راغب الخالدي; November 13, 1916 – September 2, 1968) was a senior political affairs officer for the United Nations Department of Political Affairs.
[2] Khalidi was born in Jerusalem, then still part of the Ottoman Empire, on November 13, 1916.
[5] His Ph.D. dissertation for Columbia became the book, Constitutional Development in Libya, published in 1956, with an introduction by Adriaan Pelt.
[6][7] At the time of publication, it was the first study conducted in English on the development of the Constitution of Libya (1951).
[6] Khalidi also served as the assistant editor, Middle East Desk, United States Office of War Information from 1942 to 1944, and the Secretary of the Institute for Arab American Affairs from 1945 to 1948.