Edward W. Said (1935–2003)
Author of Orientalism
About the Author
Born in Jerusalem and educated at Victoria College in Cairo and at Princeton and Harvard universities, Edward Said has taught at Columbia University since 1963 and has been a visiting professor at Harvard and Johns Hopkins University. He has had an unusual dual career as a professor of comparative show more literature, a recognized expert on the novelist and short story writer Joseph Conrad, (see Vol. 1) and as one of the most significant contemporary writers on the Middle East, especially the Palestinian question and the plight of Palestinians living in the occupied territories. Although he is not a trained historian, his Orientalism (1978) is one of the most stimulating critical evaluations of traditional Western writing on Middle Eastern history, societies, and literature. In the controversial Covering Islam (1981), he examined how the Western media have biased Western perspectives on the Middle East. A Palestinian by birth, Said has sought to show how Palestinian history differs from the rest of Arabic history because of the encounter with Jewish settlers and to present to Western readers a more broadly representative Palestinian position than they usually obtain from Western sources. Said is presently Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia, editor of Arab Studies Quarterly, and chair of the board of trustees of the Institute of Arab Studies. He is a member of the Palestinian National Council as well as the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. (Bowker Author Biography) Edward W. Said is University Professor of English & Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of nineteen books, including "Orientalism" (which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award), "Culture & Imperialism", "The End of the Peace Process", & "Out of Place", a memoir. He lives in New York City. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Edward W. Said
Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World (1981) 675 copies
The Politics of Dispossession: The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination, 1969-1994 (1994) 205 copies
خيانة المثقفين: النصوص الأخيرة 3 copies
Nationalism, colonialism, and literature: Yeats and decolonization (A Field Day pamphlet) (1988) 3 copies
Il mio diritto al ritorno 2 copies
Alif 2 copies
A Profile of the Palestinian People 2 copies
The Question of Palestine 1 copy
Oblasti povedati resnico 1 copy
Edward Said on orientalism 1 copy
Said Edward 1 copy
Krivotvorenje Islama : kako mediji i stručnjaci određuju način na koji vidimo ostatak svijeta (2003) 1 copy
Il vicolo cieco di Israele 1 copy
from Orientalism 1 copy
The Reader 1 copy
فلوبير في مصر 1 copy
Il mio diritto al ritorno. Intervista con Ari Shavit, Ha'aretz Magazine, Tel Aviv 2000 (2007) 1 copy
An Ideology of Difference 1 copy
20th century Chinese essays essence of one hundred (1994. a version of a printed)(Chinese Edition) (2000) 1 copy
Spectacular horror... 1 copy
Invention, memory and place 1 copy
Orientalism once more 1 copy
Associated Works
Mimesis: the representation of reality in western literature (1942) — Introduction, some editions — 2,315 copies
Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years (1994) — Foreword, some editions — 128 copies
Eqbal Ahmad, confronting empire : interviews with David Barsamian ; foreword by Edward W. Said (2000) — Foreword — 89 copies
Napoleon in Egypt: Al-Jabarti's Chronicle of the French Occupation, 1798 (1993) — Contributor — 43 copies
Democracy in Print: The best of the Progressive Magazine, 1909-2009 (2009) — Contributor — 14 copies
Public Intellectuals: An Endangered Species? (Rights and Responsibilities: Communitarian Responses) (2006) — Contributor — 6 copies
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- Canonical name
- Said, Edward W.
- Legal name
- Saïd, Edward Wadie
- Other names
- Sa'ed, Edward
Saed, Edward
سعيد, إدوارد - Birthdate
- 1935-11-01
- Date of death
- 2003-09-25
- Burial location
- Protestant Cemetery, Broumana, Jabal Lubnan, Lebanon
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Palestine
USA (citizenship) - Birthplace
- Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine
- Place of death
- New York City, New York, United States
- Cause of death
- chronic lymphocytic leukemia
- Places of residence
- Jerusalem, Palestine (birth)
Cairo, Egypt
Lebanon
New York, New York, USA (death) - Education
- Princeton University (AB|1957)
Harvard University (MA|1960|Ph.D|1964)
St. George's School
Victoria College
Northfield Mount Hermon School - Occupations
- Professor of English and Contemporary Literature, Columbia University
- Relationships
- Makdisi, Saree (nephew)
Said Makdisi, Jean (sister)
Zahlan, Rosemarie Saïd (sister) - Organizations
- Columbia University
West–Eastern Divan Orchestra - Awards and honors
- BBC Reith Lecturer (1993)
Premio Príncipe de Asturias (2002)
Lannan Literary Award (Lifetime Achievement ∙ 2001)
Royal Society of Literature
American Philosophical Society (2000)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 2002) (show all 13)
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Non-Fiction (2000)
Morton Dauwen Zabel Award (2000)
Sultan Owais Prize (1997)
Lionel Trilling Book Award (1976)
René Wellek Prize (1984)
New Yorker Book Award for Non-Fiction (1999)
Laureate, Spinoza Lens (1999)
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Statistics
- Works
- 95
- Also by
- 28
- Members
- 14,175
- Popularity
- #1,625
- Rating
- 3.9
- Reviews
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- ISBNs
- 405
- Languages
- 27
- Favorited
- 28
As another reviewer on here said it; there is a reason Said is not known for his poetry. This was never really meant to be published (some really truly feel unfinished) and that it is collected will be off an interest to people studying him and his work; he is not a poet and there is no reason to make him one (his merits are known).
That being said, I do think there are beautiful moments within these poems, the first part of Desert Flowers for instance, "I fled with my hearts roof torn open, blown apart" from Wistful Music, and of course
"heard no, but hurt most certainly"… (more)