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	Al-Ahram Weekly \| The death of Edward Said \| Obituaries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		But Edward Said was not just a great scholar, a brilliant mind, a creative artist, an ardent nationalist, an advocate of justice, a free spirit, an unrelenting force for integrity, an uncompromising fighter on behalf of human dignity, and all the other sets of superlative depictions that he so aptly deserves.
		Edward was amazingly human, vulnerable in his larger-than-life status to all the personal pain and doubts that beset ordinary mortals, and never too self-preoccupied to let you gain entry to his life unnoticed.
		Edward Said's life and labor is a story of transcendence of the cultural and spatial barriers that so often thoughtlessly divide humanity.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2003/657/edsaid1.htm (5582 words)

	Edward W. Said
		Edward W. Said, the late University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, was for many years the magazine's classical music critic as well as a contributing writer.
		Known both for his groundbreaking research in the field of comparative literature and his incisive political commentary, Said was one of the most prominent intellectuals in the United States.
		In 1948, Said and his family were dispossessed from Palestine and settled in Cairo.
	www.thenation.com /directory/bios/edward_w_said (291 words)

	Edward Said Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Said's frustration with Arafat is discussed in the introduction to The Politics of Dispossession (1995), where he discusses the shaping influence he very nearly had on the Camp David agreements of 1978.
		Edward Said lived all his life at a tangent to the various causes with which he was associated.
		Edward Said was the idolized hero of a generation of cultural relativists in universities from Berkeley to Bombay, for whom "Orientalism" underwrote everything from career-building exercises in "postcolonial" obscurantism ("writing the other") to denunciations of "Western Culture" in the academic curriculum.
	www.palestinemonitor.org /new_web/said_articles.htm (14467 words)

	Edward Said - Campus Watch
		Said's family's principal residence was Cairo, and it was in that city that Said was born and raised.
		Said's wealthy father, an American citizen, sometimes sent the young Said to Jerusalem to visit relatives, and Said may even have attended school there for a time, but the image Said created for himself as (in Weiner's phrase) the "avatar of Palestinian suffering" was almost purely bogus.
		Said was indeed the victim of dispossession by a tyrannical and bigoted state.
	www.campus-watch.org /article/id/805 (1179 words)

	The Moment of Myth: Edward Said (1935-2003)
		Edward Said was the walking embodiment of hope -- one extraordinary incident that sought and detected an extraordinary sparkle in otherwise very ordinary people who happened on his watch.
		At his death, Edward Said was the moral mandate, the volcanic outburst of a life otherwise wasted in and by accidents that accumulate to nothing.
		Edward Said also became an icon, a moral paragon in a time when taking desperate measures have cast doubt on the very possibility of a moral voice, and here the ordinariness of his life makes the extraordinary voice that he was even more enduring.
	www.asiasource.org /edwardsaid.cfm (2457 words)

	Obituary: Edward Said \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		Edward Said, who has died aged 67, was one of the leading literary critics of the last quarter of the 20th century.
		Said's first name, improbably inspired by the Prince of Wales, was the creation of his parents, whom he would come to see as "self-creations" out of an eclectic blend of elements and aspirations: American lore culled from magazines and his father's memories, missionary influence, incomplete and hence eccentric schooling, British colonial attitudes.
		Said's engagement with Palestine drew on deep emo tional roots, particularly his affection for his Jerusalem aunt Nabiha, his father's sister, who, after 1948, devoted her life to working with Palestinian refugees in Cairo, although she never discussed the political aspects of the dispute in Said's presence.
	www.guardian.co.uk /israel/Story/0,2763,1049931,00.html (1863 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Edward Said and the War Against Terrorism by Ronald Radosh
		Said essentially became the person most responsible for creating the idea that a paradigm of development in the Middle East was an evil construct of Western capitalism, and hence had to be resisted.
		Said has not read the many Friedman columns in which the author regularly argues that Israel has to give up its settlements, or most recently, accept the phony Saudi “peace plan” which was first made known to Friedmanwho thrilled at the scoop, has accepted it as a meaningful plan despite its plan deficiencies.
		It is writers like Edward Said(I hate to use the term intellectual to describe his drivel)who want those in the intellectual and academic communities to in fact repeat the “shameful” antics of the anti antiCommunist intellectuals of the 40s and 50s, and to apologize for tyrants and to continue to condemn the United States.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=1469 (1855 words)

	Columbia News ::: Columbia Community Mourns Passing of Edward Said, Beloved and Esteemed University Professor
		Edward W. Said, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, a member of the Columbia faculty since 1963 and University Professor since 1992, died on Thursday, September 25, at 6:45 a.m.
		One of the most influential scholars in the world, Said was also a devoted and beloved teacher to generations of Columbia students.
		Edward Said was born in Jerusalem in 1935, but spent most of his life in the United States.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/news/03/09/edwardSaid_2.html (561 words)

	PROFILE: REMEMBRANCE OF EDWARD SAID, PROFESSOR, AUTHOR AND ADVOCATE OF THE PALESTINIAN CAUSE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Edward Said, an advocate of the Palestinian cause, a professor of literature at the Columbia University, a critic who wrote authoritatively of Conrad and Beethoven, died in New York City last night at age 67 after battling leukemia for many years.
		Said, who was born in Jerusalem, was best known for his 1978 book "Orientalism," which, for Said, had many definitions.
		Edward Said wrote of exile, a subject which may have begun as something autobiographical, but Homi Bhabha says it was something that became philosophical for Said.
	www.npr.org /programs/atc/transcripts/2003/sep/030925.said.html (984 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Edward Said's Parting Shots by Edward Alexander, Nicolai Popov and Marc Lange
		By Said the herd of independent thinkers in political science departments have been taught that "Israel's occupation increased in severity and outright cruelty, more than rivalling all other military occupations in modern history." His acolytes also have found meat and drink in Said's pristinely ignorant and intellectually violent pronouncements about Jews.
		We all support the PLO." Said wrote this while he was still a member of the Palestine National Council, the leading spokesman for the PLO in the American news media, and one of the closest advisors of Yasser Arafat, whom he praised for "his microscopic grasp...
		Edward Said gave the prestigious Walker-Ames lecture at the U of Washington on May 8, 2003, to a "sold out" audience.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=7929 (757 words)

	(Edward) Said's Splash by Martin Kramer (from Ivory Towers on Sand)
		Said hailed from some point in the East ("this study derives from my awareness of being an 'Oriental'"), but he was also the Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature, who announced in his introduction to Orientalism that he wrote it in his double capacity.
		Said partly overcame the limits of the subject matter by managing to quote, at least once, many of the English and French authors whose works are the staples of introductory literature courses.
		Said was perfectly positioned to legitimize at least some of the contentions of the "critical scholarship" of the left.
	www.geocities.com /martinkramerorg/SaidSplash.htm (6412 words)

	Edward Said and Me - Middle East Forum
		I discovered many interesting points: that Said was in fact "born in Jerusalem," but only because his parents feared hygienic conditions in Cairo hospitals after their previously born son died of an infection within days of his delivery.
		Said's fraud continues to be important a full year later because it raises larger questions than simply the myth-making and selective memory of one person.
		Edward Said writes in his book Representations of the Intellectual that the goal of the intellectual is to speak truth to power.
	www.meforum.org /article/191 (1222 words)

	Edward Said criticizes war with Iraq, catalogs human rights abuses of Palestinians, yet sees hope for peace with Israel
		Edward Said, professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University and a Palestinian scholar.
		At UC Berkeley, Said was introduced first by Chancellor Robert J. Berdahl, then by Nezar AlSayyad, chair of UC Berkeley's Center for Middle Eastern Studies and a professor of architecture and planning.
		Said then began to catalog the human rights violations that he says Israel has committed against the Palestinians, including torture, assassination, assault against civilians, annexation of territory, mass killing, denial of the right to free passage, denial of medical aid, use of citizens as human shields, expropriation of water, and economic pauperization.
	www.berkeley.edu /news/media/releases/2003/02/20_said.shtml (1659 words)

	Said
		Said has been in the spotlight for a long time now, but in the last two or three years — and especially since September 11 of this year — his public profile has been higher than ever.
		Thus Said’s are no ordinary deceptions, but instead resonate in a way that, say, the recently revealed prevarications by the historian Joseph Ellis (who for years told his classes at Mount Holyoke that he had served in Vietnam) do not.
		The elder Said adored the U.S., loathed Palestine, and was eager for his boy to become a successful, respected American and to turn his back forever on the Middle East and its messy politics.
	www.brucebawer.com /said.htm (3157 words)

	Edward W. Said'sCulture AND Imperialism
		Said's message is that imperialism is not about a moment in history; it is about a continuing interdependent discourse between subject peoples and the dominant discourse of the empire.
		Said also notes that England, unlike the Spanish and to some extent the French, was more focussed on long-term subjugation of the colonies, on managing the colonized peoples to cultivate sugar and other commodities for the English.
		Said uses the literature of that period to illustrate the extent to which acceptance that subjugated peoples should in fact engage in such labor, and that the proceeds from that labor should support the English.
	www.csudh.edu /dearhabermas/said01.htm (1139 words)

	World-renowned scholar Edward Said dies \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		Edward Said, the world-renowned scholar, writer and critic has died aged 67, it was announced today.
		Said died at a New York hospital, his editor Shelly Wanger said.
		Said, a professor at Columbia University for most of his academic career, was consistently critical of Israel for what he regarded as mistreatment of the Palestinians.
	www.guardian.co.uk /israel/Story/0,2763,1049793,00.html (616 words)

	Edward Said: The Last Interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Edward Said, University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, was one of the most important literary critics of the late 20th century, and for many years the most prominent spokesperson for the Palestinian cause in the United States.
		Said was diagnosed with incurable leukemia in 1991, and struggled with the disease throughout the decade, while continuing to write and teach.
		EDWARD SAID: THE LAST INTERVIEW is the remarkable final testament of this passionately committed intellectual.
	www.frif.com /new2004/said.html (463 words)

	Critical Theory: Edward Said
		Born in British Occupied Palestine, Edward Said attended Western schools in Jerusalem, Cairo, and Massachusetts; he went on to earn his B.A. at Princeton University in 1963 and his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1964.
		Said was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 1972, and his Orientalism (1978), which won the National Book Award for criticism, is considered by many to be the text that inaugurated postcolonial studies in Western academia.
		In Orientalism, Said maps out the various ways in which the "oriental" is constructed by the colonizing orientalist and how this construct ultimately reveals not the nature of the colonized subject but the unconscious desires of the colonizer.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/critical/said.htm (238 words)

	Edward Said's Thoughts on the Mid-East
		Currently, we are blogging some Edward Said's new work directly to the sections of this Web site that is focused on the topic of the article (such as the War on Iraq).
		Edward Said urges an Arab alternative to the wreckage that is about to engulf our world.
		Edward Said was born in Jerusalem, Palestine, educated in secondary schools there and in Cairo, then obtained his B.A. from Princeton, and his Ph.D. for Harvard.
	www.matrixmasters.com /wtc/esaid/esaid.html (2831 words)

	Edward Said (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		These people have now been joined in Iraq by a whole army of private contractors and eager entrepreneurs to whom shall be confided every thing from the writing of textbooks and the constitution to the refashioning of Iraqi political life and its oil industry.
		Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort.
		Edward Said was a professor at Columbia University.
	www.levantinecenter.org /pages/edward_said.html (2602 words)

	Amazon.com: Orientalism: Books: Edward W. Said (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Said argues that concepts such as the Orient, Islam, the Arabs, etc. are too vast to be grouped together and presented as one coherent whole, encompassing all there is to know about the subject.
		Said bases his view on the shear width and breadth of the subject, the inherent bias of conflicting cultures and more recently the role of the Orientalism in colonialism.
		Said lays the blame for nearly everything wrong in the islamic world at the feet of the West, and thus helped entrench the culture of victimhood that feeds into suicide bombings and riots against political cartoons.
	www.amazon.com /Orientalism-Edward-W-Said/dp/039474067X (1888 words)

	Salon.com Directory \| Edward Said (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Said critic blasts back at Hitchens A third volley in the controversy over the leading Palestinian intellectual in America.
		Commentary's scurrilous attack on Edward Said Enemies are calling him "the Palestinian Tawana Brawley," but Said's stories of displacement and diaspora are true.
		Edward Said to respond to claims he's not a true Palestinian Middle East scholar is accused of misrepresenting his past.
	archive.salon.com /directory/topics/edward_said (226 words)

	Amazon.com: Culture and Imperialism: Books: Edward W. Said (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Edward Said makes one of the strongest cases ever for the aphorism, "the pen is mightier than the sword." This is a brilliant work of literary criticism that essentially becomes political science.
		I think Said wants art to be more specifically political than it often is so his natural tendency is to make as much as he can out of whatever evidence he finds and build arguments by overloading what is sometimes pretty scant evidence with disproportionate significance.
		Said clearly described that the reaction toward imperialism is mutual: from the Western side, the prejudice and biased and the supremacy-feeling, which unfortunately still existed today; and from the "other side", also prejudice and to the extreme side, anti-Western.
	www.amazon.com /Culture-Imperialism-Edward-W-Said/dp/0679750541 (2509 words)

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