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 ...

Reflections on Edward Said 20 years after his death. Edward Said “Hard to believe,” we kept saying to ourselves as we lived through another troubled (and deadly) year in occupied Palestine: It was ...

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 ...

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 ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Edward Said, who died 17 years ago today, has been called many things. A literary critic and an exile, an unyielding ...

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 ...

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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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The life of our colleague Edward Said, who died on September 25, brings to mind the words of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: “It is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his ...