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Edward Said was a Princeton and Harvard educated Palestinian-American who became a professor of English literature at Columbia University. His most famous early work was Orientalism (1978) which examined western cultural perceptions and representations of Arabs and Arab culture.
He has been described as "an intellectual superstar" and as one of the best minds of the 20th century. From 1977 until 1991, Said was an independent member of the Palestinian National Council, but resigned his position in 1993 in protest of the Oslo accords. He was a proponent of a two-state solution and criticized Arafat for compromising the right of return of Palestinians in the diaspora.
His books on Israel/Palestine include The Question of Palestine (1979) and The Politics of Dispossession (1994). He died in 2003 of leukemia.
He was also the subject of a couple of films made in the U.S. In the first, "Orientalism" (1986), he discusses some of the anomalies of life as a Palestinian:
In a film made over a decade later for the BBC, "In Search of Palestine - Edward Said's Return Home," he returns to Israel/Palestine for the first time since late 1947 and takes a look at conditions.
He has been described as "an intellectual superstar" and as one of the best minds of the 20th century. From 1977 until 1991, Said was an independent member of the Palestinian National Council, but resigned his position in 1993 in protest of the Oslo accords. He was a proponent of a two-state solution and criticized Arafat for compromising the right of return of Palestinians in the diaspora.
His books on Israel/Palestine include The Question of Palestine (1979) and The Politics of Dispossession (1994). He died in 2003 of leukemia.
He was also the subject of a couple of films made in the U.S. In the first, "Orientalism" (1986), he discusses some of the anomalies of life as a Palestinian:
In a film made over a decade later for the BBC, "In Search of Palestine - Edward Said's Return Home," he returns to Israel/Palestine for the first time since late 1947 and takes a look at conditions.
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