Edward W. Said
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born
November 01, 1935
died
September 25, 2003
gender
male
place of birth
Jerusalem, Palestinian Territory, Occupied
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Social Sciences, Politics, Literature & Fiction
about this author
Edward W. Said was born in Jerusalem and raised in Egypt until his parents sent him to the United States in 1951.
Said graduated from Princeton University in 1957 and earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1964.
He was a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York and held his chair until his death at 67. His major interests were in many fields, including literature, musics and Palestinian issues. He was best-known by his tireless roles of supporting Palestine's freedom and countering violence in Middle East.
His first and most important work 'Orientalism' published in 1978 is a groundbreaking criticism of systematic conceptual invention of "East" and "...more
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Orientalism by Edward W. Said avg rating 4.07 — 1,419 ratings — published 1978 16 editions |
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Culture and Imperialism by Edward W. Said avg rating 4.05 — 391 ratings — published 1993 8 editions |
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Out of Place by Edward W. Said avg rating 3.90 — 214 ratings — published 1999 9 editions |
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Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World by Edward W. Said avg rating 3.91 — 193 ratings — published 1981 10 editions |
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The Question of Palestine by Edward W. Said avg rating 4.20 — 149 ratings — published 1980 6 editions |
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Representations of the Intellectual: The 1993 Reith Lectures by Edward W. Said avg rating 4.15 — 114 ratings — published 1994 6 editions |
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Reflections on Exile and Other Essays by Edward W. Said avg rating 4.40 — 73 ratings — published 2001 4 editions |
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Power, Politics and Culture by Edward W. Said avg rating 4.08 — 61 ratings — published 2001 4 editions |
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From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map: Essays by Edward W. Said avg rating 3.89 — 45 ratings — published 2004 5 editions |
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The World, the Text, and the Critic by Edward W. Said avg rating 3.95 — 42 ratings — published 1983 7 editions |
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"All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and interpretation. This is not to say that facts or data are nonexistent, but that facts get their importance from what is made of them in interpretation… for interpretations depend very much on who the interpreter is, who he or she is addressing, what his or her purpose is, at what historical moment the interpretation takes place."
— Edward W. Said
— Edward W. Said
"Despite the variety and the differences, and however much we proclaim the contrary, what the media produce is neither spontaneous nor completely “free:” “news” does not just happen, pictures and ideas do not merely spring from reality into our eyes and minds, truth is not directly available, we do not have unrestrained variety at our disposal.
For like all modes of communication, television, radio, and newspapers observe certain rules and conventions to get things across intelligibly, and it is these, often more than the reality being conveyed, that shape the material delivered by the media. "
— Edward W. Said
For like all modes of communication, television, radio, and newspapers observe certain rules and conventions to get things across intelligibly, and it is these, often more than the reality being conveyed, that shape the material delivered by the media. "
— Edward W. Said
"Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate."
— Edward W. Said
— Edward W. Said
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