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'''Edward Said''' (1935-2003) was a [[Palestinian]]-American literary scholar and political activist. He is best known for his 1978 book ''Orientalism''.
'''Edward Said''' (1935-2003) was a [[Palestinian]]-American literary scholar and political activist. He is best known for his 1978 book ''[[Orientalism]]''. Said was Christian (not Muslim), was educated in British schools in Egypt then at American prep schools, Princeton and Harvard; he spent his entire academic career at Columbia University in New York City; he was active in Palestinian politics.
Said did not comment on whether anyone could deal honestly and fairly with Asia, for he was taking a general postmodern view that complete analysis is never possible, that Orientalism is misguided and uncritically "essentialist' when it assumes there is such as thing as the Orient in the first place.
==see also==
* [[Orientalism]]
==Further reading==
* Kennedy, Valerie. ''Edward Said: A Critical Introduction'' (2000), 192pp; useful introduction [http://www.amazon.com/Edward-Said-Critical-Introduction-Contemporary/dp/0745620183/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1257203191&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search
* Warraq, Ibn. ''Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism'' (2007) a conservative critique
===Primary sources===
* Said, Edward. ''The Edward Said Reader'' ed. by Moustafa Bayoumi and Andrew Rubin (2000) [http://www.amazon.com/Edward-Said-Reader-W/dp/0375709363/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1257203018&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
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