Edward W. Said, author portrait
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Edward W. Said

Edward W. Said was born in 1935 in Jerusalem, raised in Jerusalem and Cairo, and educated in the United States, where he attended Princeton (B.A. 1957) and Harvard (M.A. 1960; Ph.D. 1964). In 1963, he began teaching at Columbia University, where he was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature. He died in 2003 in New York City.

He is the author of twenty-two books which have been translated into 35 languages, including Orientalism (1978); The Question of Palestine (1979); Covering Islam (1980); The World, the Text, and the Critic (1983); Culture and Imperialism (1993); Peace and Its Discontents: Essays on Palestine and the Middle East Peace Process (1996); and Out of Place: A Memoir (1999). Besides his academic work, he wrote a twice-monthly column for Al-Hayat and Al-Ahram; was a regular contributor to newspapers in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East; and was the music critic for The Nation.
Reflections on Exile
The World, the Text, and the Critic
Beginnings
The Selected Works of Edward Said, 1966 - 2006
On Late Style
From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map
Parallels and Paradoxes
Power, Politics, and Culture
The End of the Peace Process
Out of Place
Covering Islam
Representations of the Intellectual
Peace And Its Discontents
The Politics of Dispossession
Culture and Imperialism
The Question of Palestine
Orientalism

Books

Reflections on Exile
The World, the Text, and the Critic
Beginnings
The Selected Works of Edward Said, 1966 - 2006
On Late Style
From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map
Parallels and Paradoxes
Power, Politics, and Culture
The End of the Peace Process
Out of Place
Covering Islam
Representations of the Intellectual
Peace And Its Discontents
The Politics of Dispossession
Culture and Imperialism
The Question of Palestine
Orientalism

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