Jan 1, 2008 · Edward Said’s influence on academe looms even larger in death than during his life. On September 25, 2003, the day that he died, students and staff of Columbia University gathered in the …

Dec 30, 2025 · Said forged a career out of revisiting the past, “deconstructing” what he found and writing it anew. Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said’s Orientalism by Ibn Warraq, founder of the …

Oct 2, 2003 · Edward Said, longtime professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, prolific author of “cultural” literary criticism and political polemic, former member of the …

Nov 30, 2025 · Edward Said, a literary critic loaded with talent, has certainly made a splash, but with this sort of effort he is not going to win any major races. This is a great pity, for it is a book that in …

Sep 20, 2000 · The Intellectual and the Truth Edward Said writes in his book Representations of the Intellectual that the goal of the intellectual is to speak truth to power. Although in some ways a post …

Oct 16, 2006 · Edward Said died three years ago, and some people are in mourning still. But his star in the academy is dimming, although there is still a 15-year backlog of underemployed graduate …

Sep 29, 2003 · Probably the best that can be said of the late Professor Edward Said, who died Thursday, is that there was a part of him that ardently loved and sincerely appreciated art and …

Jan 17, 1997 · Edward Said, long a critic of Israel’s policies toward Palestinians, has recently become a leading voice against the Oslo peace process and Yasir Arafat’s rule in the Palestinian Authority …

Edward Said introduced the idea of Orientalism. It is the idea that much of Western depictions of Asian cultures and societies are overly simplistic, stereotypical, and offensive.

Dec 1, 2025 · In this hagiography of the late Edward Said, Veeser, of the English department at City College of New York, purports to present the man behind the myth, a devotee of Savile Row tailors …