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Edward Said

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Also known as Edward Wadie Said

Palestinian-American professor (1935–2003)

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Edward Said (1935–2003) was a writer, literary critic, journalist, and philosopher. Born in Jerusalem, he held citizenship in the United States and Mandatory Palestine. He was educated at Harvard University, Princeton University, Northfield Mount Hermon School, and Victoria College. Said worked in New York City and Cairo, serving as an employee of Columbia University. His notable work includes *Orientalism*. He was influenced by Michel Foucault and Jean-Paul Sartre.

Said was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Arab Academy of Damascus, and the American Philosophical Society. He received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Princess of Asturias Award for Concord, American Book Awards, and Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. He spoke Arabic, English, and Levantine Arabic. His sibling was Rosemarie Said Zahlan, and a relative was Khalil Beidas. He died in New York City of leukemia.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1935
Died
2003
Works
152

Top works

  • al-Naqd wa-al-mujtamaʻ
  • The letters of Joseph Conrad
  • Ḥarb al-ʻālamayn al-ūlá
  • La Posmodernidad
  • Orientalism

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Film & TV

Acting · Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine

Known for

  • Echoing Voices: From the Words of Edward W. Said — Self2025
  • The man who predicted the future of the Arabs — himself2019
  • Edward Said: Out of Place — Self2018
  • Ethos — Self2011
  • Out of Place: Memories of Edward Said — Self2006
  • Knowledge Is the Beginning — Self2005
  • Edward Said: The Last Interview2004
  • Selves and Others: A Portrait of Edward Said2004
  • Edward Said On Orientalism: "The Orient" Represented in Mass Media1998
  • On 'Orientalism' — Self1998

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Germany
hip hop

Discography

DiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
351
Total plays
2,540

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Edward Wadie Said (Arabic: إدوارد وديع سعيد, transliteration: Edward Wādi Sa‘id) (1 November 1935 – 25 September 2003) was a Palestinian-American literary theorist and outspoken Palestinian activist. He was Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and is regarded as a founding figure in post-colonial theory. Said is best known for describing and critiquing "Orientalism", which he perceived as a constellation of false assumptions underlying Western attitudes toward the East. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Edward+Said">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines

    · 1953 · cited 29,950x

  2. Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being.

    · 2000 · cited 28,540x

  3. The "What" and "Why" of Goal Pursuits: Human Needs and the Self-Determination of Behavior

    · 2000 · cited 24,762x

  4. Adsorption of Gases in Multimolecular Layers

    · 1938 · cited 24,536x

  5. THE USE OF LEAD CITRATE AT HIGH pH AS AN ELECTRON-OPAQUE STAIN IN ELECTRON MICROSCOPY

    · 1963 · cited 18,992x

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Quotes

  • “When one learns something one first performs an act of will, because only by willing to learn can one learn.”
  • “[An elaborated culture has a] density, complexity, and historical-semantic value that is so strong as to make politics possible... Gramsci's insight is to have recognised that subordination, fracturing, diffusion, reproducing, as much as producing, creating, forcing, guiding, are necessary aspects of elaboration.”
  • “The central fact for me is, I think, that the [role of the] intellectual ... cannot be played without a sense of being someone whose place it is publicly to raise embarrassing questions, to confront orthodoxy and dogma (rather than to produce them), to be someone who cannot easily be co-opted by governments or corporations, and whose raison d'être is to represent all those people and issues that are routinely forgotten or swept under the rug.”
  • “Where cruelty and injustice are concerned, hopelessness is submission, which I believe is immoral.”
  • “Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also being studied.”
  • “It isn't at all a matter of being optimistic, but rather of continuing to have faith in the ongoing and literally unending process of emancipation and enlightenment that, in my opinion, frames and gives direction to the intellectual vocation.”

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Works in European collections

1 object attributed to Edward Said, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Artwork

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Encyclopedic overview

Edward Wadie Said (1 November 1935 – 24 September 2003) was a Palestinian and American academic, literary critic, and political activist. As a professor of literature at Columbia University, he was among the founders of post-colonial studies. As a cultural critic, Said is best known for his book Orientalism (1978), a foundational text which critiques the cultural representations that are the bases of Orientalism—how the Western world perceives the Orient. His model of textual analysis transformed the academic discourse of researchers in literary theory, literary criticism, and Middle Eastern studies.

Born in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine, in 1935, Said was a United States citizen by way of his father, who had served in the United States Army during World War I. After the 1948 Palestine war, he relocated the family to Egypt, where they had previously lived, and then to the United States. Said enrolled at the secondary school Victoria College while in Egypt and Northfield Mount Hermon School after arriving in the United States. He graduated from Princeton University in 1957 and received a doctorate in English literature from Harvard University in 1964. His principal influences were Antonio Gramsci, Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, Michel Foucault, and Theodor W. Adorno.

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