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Edward Said
1935 -2003
Renowned scholar, activist and intellectual, Professor Edward W. Said, 67, died on September 25, 2003 after a decade-long battle with leukemia. His death comes just days before the third anniversary of the Palestinian Intifada, or uprising. He had been diagnosed with cancer during the Persian Gulf War. For the past decade he fought tirelessly against both the cancer and the war.
Said was known throughout the world as a leading thinker, and there are few fields of intellectual endeavor that have been untouched by his contributions.
He was a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and the author of over a dozen books, including "Peace and its Discontents: Essays on Palestine in the Middle East Peace Process, Culture and Imperialism and Orientalism." His writings have been translated into 26 languages. He was a frequent guest on Democracy Now! and other Pacifica programs and a great fighter for voiceless victims around the world.
Said was born in Jerusalem on November 1, 1935, when it was under British control. In 1948, his family was dispossessed from Palestine and settled in Cairo. At the age of 17, he was sent to the United States as a student. He received a bachelor’s degree from Princeton in 1957 and a master’s and Ph.D. from Harvard, in 1960 and 1964.
The 1967 Arab-Israeli war stirred him to political activism. When Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir infamously declared in 1969, "There are no Palestinians," Said decided to take on "the slightly preposterous challenge of disproving her, of beginning to articulate a history of loss and dispossession that had to be extricated, minute by minute, word by word, inch by inch."
He was an eloquent voice for justice throughout the Palestinian struggle and noted as one of the foremost intellectuals on the Middle East and colonialism.
Because of his advocacy for Palestinian self-determination and his membership in the Palestine National Council, Said was not allowed to visit Palestine until several years ago.
A prolific scholar and intellectual, Said was also an acomplished concert pianist and music critic and was fluent in Arabic and French.
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June 26th, 2003 Edward Said on Israel, Palestine and the Most Recent Middle East Peace Plan Hamas agrees to ceasefire but President Bush derides it and Israel attacks Gaza Strip, killing two Palestinian civilians. Today we hear a major address recorded last week from Edward Said, the internationally renowned author and scholar.
April 24th, 2003 Edward Said Speech We turn now to Columbia University Professor Edward Said speaking in New York...
April 23rd, 2003 Columbia University Professor Edward Said:
History, Colonialism and How the U.S. Is Changing the Map of the Middle East
Last week Columbia University professor Edward Said spoke at a 25th anniversary...
April 15th, 2003 Syrian Expert Patrick Seale and Columbia University Professor Edward Said Discuss the State of the Middle East After the Invasion of Iraq Secretary Of State Gen. Colin Powell accused Syria of harboring officials from Saddam Hussein’s government, and threatened economic or diplomatic sanctions.
May 28th, 2002 The Politics of Culture: Professor Edward Said Talks About the U.S. Media As An Arm of the So-Called War On Terror Against the Arab A story by Gideon Levy in the Israeli newspaper, Ha’aretz, begins like this...
January 1st, 2002 Edward Said Ushers in the New Year with Democracy Now! in Exile Guest: Edward Said, professor of comparative literature...
December 26th, 2001 Edward Said Discusses the Cycle of Violence Just as the Afghanistan’s new provisional government was preparing to take...
September 25th, 2001 As Israel Intensifies Its Occupation in Palestinian Territories, a Conversation with Edward Said Since the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon political commentators...
August 3rd, 2001 As Israel Insists It Will Continue Assassinating Palestinians, a Conversation with Edward Said Palestinian President Yasser Arafat met with Pope John Paul in Rome yesterday....
March 14th, 2001 New York Times Casts Stones at Edward Said.
It was a great photo, spread large across the New York Times: In it, a renowned English professor stands atthe Lebanese border winding up to pitch a stone, according to the caption, at Israeli soldiers. It turns out that the only bull’s eye the professor hit was a wall of biases and preconceptions.
February 8th, 2001 Edward Said On Palestinian Politics and the Search for Justice Only two days after Ariel Sharon decisively won the Israeli election for Prime Minister, he rejected a Palestiniancall to pick up the peace process where talks left off.
December 29th, 2000 End of Millennium Conversation: Sebastiao Salgado, Eduardo Galeano, Edward Said, South African National Assembly Speaker Frene Ginwala, Noam Chomsky, Manning Marable, Film Maker John Pilger Today, we stand on the border of two millennia. We will look back on the last century with some of the people who helped to document a pageant of abuse and to fight against injustice.
October 16th, 2000 Edward Said On His Experience As a Palestinian
As thousands of Iraqis marched through the streets of Baghdad this morning volunteering to help Palestinians fight Israel, a last ditch effort at bringing peace began this morning in Sharm El-Shiekh, Egypt.
December 21st, 1999 Reparations for the Palestinians
German, U.S. and east European officials sealed a historic agreement on Friday to compensate Nazi era slave workers 54 years after World War Two, offering 5 billion dollars to the former workers and their survivors
May 14th, 1999 Edward Said and Noam Chomsky Speak On NATO Bombings of Yugoslavia NATO has confirmed that it is checking reports that it killed 100 civilians in Southwestern Kosovo when it attacked Yugoslavia overnight with the heaviest raids of its seven-week bombing campaign.
May 11th, 1999 Professor Edward Said Speaks On the Plight of Palestinians Israel’s Supreme Court stopped the government from closing the headquarters of the Palestinian Liberation Organization in Jerusalem today, defusing a potential showdown just six days before general elections.
April 12th, 1999 Noam Chomsky and Edward Said On Kosovo
NATO struck at Serbia’s industrial heartland today, returning to sites already hard hit in the allied air campaign.
February 26th, 1998 Iraq Crisis Four people were arrested at the White House last night.
