Edward Said may be the world’s most famous English professor, and its most famous Palestinian after Yasir Arafat. In the academy, he is best known for his influential critique of “Orientalism,” that ...

A Day for Gaza / On Palestine and the geography of vanishing. Alaa Alqaisi This piece is part of A Day for Gaza, an ...

Edward Said and Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, 1986. (Photo by Jean Mohr) “Edward Said was our prince,” the Egyptian novelist Ahdaf Soueif recently said in a conversation reflecting on the Palestinian public ...

Exile has been a harsh reality for many intellectuals, writes Alon Confino, a professor of modern German and European history at the University of Virginia. In an issue devoted to “meditations on ...

Charles Gaines, "Faces 1: Identity Politics, #10, Edward Said" (2018) on view at the ICA Miami on March 7 (photo used with permission) The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA) quietly removed a ...

The serenity of Edward Said’s household routine in the last 20 years of his life offered a conspicuous contrast to the nonstop turbulence of his public persona. He lived on Manhattan’s Riverside Drive ...

At the time of Edward Said’s death in 2003, after a long battle with leukemia, “he was probably the best-known intellectual in the world,” noted one commentator. He was an extraordinarily influential ...

N ow an academic classic, Orientalism was at first an unlikely best seller. Begun just as the Watergate hearings were nearing their end and published in 1978, it opens with a stark cameo of the gutted ...

Edward Said, who died 17 years ago today, has been called many things. A literary critic and an exile, an unyielding voice for Palestinian self-determination, an educator, a trailblazer, a "normalizer ...

I traveled to Israel and the Occupied Territories in the early 2000s with the progressive group Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace. We made an effort to gain insight into most of the players in the ...

The recent firefights that have exploded this May between Hamas and the Israeli Army in Gaza—with more casualties on the Palestinian than on the Israeli side—sent me back to The Question of Palestine, ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Ayten Tartici PLACES OF MIND A Life of Edward Said By Timothy Brennan In 1986, Edward Said ...