Feb 27, 2026 · Hovsepian’s Edward Said offers an intimate intellectual biography of the influential Palestinian-American scholar (1935–2003), drawing heavily on the author’s friendship with Said, as …

Mar 25, 2004 · Edward Said’s influence on academe looms even larger in death than during his life. On September 25, 2003, the day that he died, students and staff of Columbia University gathered in the …

Mar 29, 2025 · Edward Said, a literary critic loaded with talent, has certainly made a splash, but with this sort of effort he is not going to win any major races. This is a great pity, for it is a book that in …

Oct 2, 2003 · Edward Said, longtime professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, prolific author of “cultural” literary criticism and political polemic, former member of the …

Sep 20, 2000 · The Intellectual and the Truth Edward Said writes in his book Representations of the Intellectual that the goal of the intellectual is to speak truth to power. Although in some ways a post …

Said forged a career out of revisiting the past, “deconstructing” what he found and writing it anew. Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said’s Orientalism by Ibn Warraq, founder of the Institute …

Jun 10, 2008 · Said seems to use the term “Orientalist” for one who, on the whole, studies the Middle East, that is, the Muslim populations of the Middle East. The person who studies the Jews, or the …

Nov 9, 2023 · The politicization of Middle East studies launched by Said’s Orientalism continues apace, both through his kin like Makdisi, and through kindred spirits – including thousands of college …

May 7, 2008 · Edward Said’s Shadowy Legacy [incl. Daniel Martin Varisco, Bernard Lewis, et al.] Tricky with argument, weak in languages, careless of facts: but, thirty years on, Said still dominates debate

Oct 28, 2016 · Said’s Shame and the Disorientation of the West Said’s Orientalism exploited a Western proclivity for moral self-criticism over criticism of other cultures to shield his people from shame. For …