An interview with Edward Said

with Edward Said
in Books
on Thursday, October 7, 1999 * * * * *

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An interview with professor at Columbia University Edward Said about his book, "Out of Place", which chronicles his early years in the Middle East.

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leukemia
Palestinians
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Out of Place
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    1. Nora  01/08/2008 04:30 AM Report

      It's strange to me how Edward belittles Orientalists all the while he behaves like one. As an Arab, I find his romanticized vision of the Arab World and so called no longer existent Arab places absurd and patronizing. He desperately tries to mythologize the Arab World, Cairo, Beirut, Tunis, Jerusalem, but I thought this was the Westerner's defect? He is also extremely divisive in his description of Arabs, he yearns for heterogeneity in the Arab World because he has an inferiority complex and so desires to create a myth about his Christian Palestinian origins, as though the Christian Palestinians were any different from the Muslim Palestinians. Edward was out of touch with the Arab World, which is why his ideas do not resonate, and only appeal to social climbing Arab intellectuals. Also insulting is his confidence that he could have run for office in Palestine, had he not been ill, and won. Palestinians would not have taken his Western brand of intellectualism seriously, nor his mythologizing, lying and romanticizing.

    2. Dina  01/08/2008 03:53 AM Report

      Edward Said was so out of touch with Arab reality. He did not even know the Arab World well, and as an Arab, I am disgusted by how he tried to romanticize his past and his family's role in the Arab World. It is clear to me that he blew things out of proportion, simply to show off and of course got away with it amidst Westerners, who for the most part know nothing and have never known anything about the Arab World. It is obvious to me that Edward Said made up and distorted his past.