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"Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Victims" is an essay by Palestinian-American academic Edward Said, published in 1979 as part of a broader set of writings that Said had titled The Question of Palestine. [1] It joins a broad field of scholarship that engages in investigations of the role of nationalism and imperialism across the globe. [2]
Edward Said and his sister, Rosemarie Said dressed in traditional Arab clothing, 1940 Said was born on 1 November 1935 [16] into a family of Palestinian Christians in the city of Jerusalem, at the time under the British Mandate for Palestine. [17]
Since Edward Said's death in 2003, several institutions have instituted annual lecture series in his memory, including Columbia University, [1] University of Warwick, Princeton University, University of Adelaide, [2] The American University in Cairo, London Review of Books, the Barenboim-Said Akademie and Palestine Center, with such notables speaking as Daniel Barenboim, Noam Chomsky, Robert ...
Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question is a collection of essays, co-edited by Palestinian scholar and advocate Edward Said and journalist and author Christopher Hitchens, published by Verso Books in 1988.
Edward Said, a Palestinian American professor and activist, asserted that it was Golda Meir's "most celebrated remark". [4] Al Jazeera journalist Alasdair Soussi wrote that "Meir's jingoistic comments concerning Palestinians remain one of her defining – and most damning – legacies."
Covering Islam is a 1981 book by Palestinian author Edward Said, in which he discusses how the Western media distorts the image of Islam.Said describes the book as the third and last in a series of books (the first two were Orientalism and The Question of Palestine) in which he analyzes the relations between the Islamic world, Arabs and East and West, France, Great Britain and the United States.
Edward Said (1 November 1935 – 25 September 2003) was an American literary theorist, cultural critic, and political activist of Palestinian descent. He was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and edited several academic books.
Culture and Imperialism is a 1993 collection of thematically related essays by Palestinian-American academic Edward Said, tracing the connection between imperialism and culture throughout the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.