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Edward Said

University professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. He is 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. Said was born in Jerusalem in 1935, before Partition, and was a member of the Palestine Liberation Council between 1977 and 1991.

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