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Edward W. Said
Surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, considering orientalism as a powerful European ideological creation - a way for writers, philosophers and colonial administrators to deal…
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An account of the emergence of the modern Palestinian nation and its confrontation with Zionism and Israel. The author argues the plight of the four million scattered Palestinians who have…
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A compilation of 35 years’ worth of critical essays from one of the boldest and most articulate cultural theorists of our time.
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Using many examples, ‘Covering Islam’ demonstrates that the media and the government-business establishment have produced a dangerously misleading and oversimplified portrait of Islam and Muslims, based on ignorance, inaccuracy and…
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Joe Sacco
The landmark work of comics journalism by Joe Sacco, in a new hardcover edition with a new afterword by Israeli journalist Amira Hass and an introduction by Palestinian American author…
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William V. Spanos
With the untimely death of Edward W Said in 2003, various academic and public intellectuals worldwide have begun to reassess the writings of this powerful oppositional intellectual. This title examines…
Edward W. Said has been a controversial and influential figure in and around the US academy for well over three decades. In this ciollection of interviews, Said reveals the displacements…
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A groundbreaking account of the history of Palestine by one of the world's most eloquent scholars of the Middle East, featuring a new introduction by Saree Makdisi
Originally published in shorter form as The Edward Said Reader.
A collection of interviews conducted during the past twenty-five years covers such topics as Said’s nomadic upbringing under colonial rule, his politically active childhood, and his perspectives of fellow critics…
A penetrating look at the way in which experts, policy-makers and the media have dealt with the crisis in Iran and the Middle East. With examples, Said demonstrates that the…
Following his profoundly influential study, Orientalism, Edward Said now examines western culture. From Jane Austen to Salman Rushdie, from Yeats to media coverage of the Gulf War, Culture and Imperialism…
Intends to recover the notion of culture as a collective, hybrid and plural experience, in light of the political imperative that rules us. In bringing together some of the figures…
Edward W. Said is considered one of the most influential literary and postcolonial theorists in the world. Affirming Said’s multifaceted and enormous critical impact, this collection features essays that highlight…
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Di Brango Simone
La decolonizzazione e la globalizzazione hanno cambiato gli equilibri politici ed economici dell'ordine mondiale derivato dalla Seconda Guerra Mondiale. Il critico e storico della letteratura Edward W. Said ha cercato…
Soon after the Oslo accords were signed in September 1993 by Israel and Palestinian Liberation Organization, Edward Said predicted that they could not lead to real peace. In these essays…
Edward Said saw music as a reflection of his ideas on literature and history and paid close attention to its composition and creative possibilities. This book brings together three decades…
Writing with passion and intelligence, Said retraces the Palestinian Hejira, its disastrous flirtation with Saddam Hussein, and its ambitious peace accord with Israel. Said demolishes Western stereotypes about the Muslim…
In works such as Culture and Imperialism, Said has compelled us to question our culture’s most privileged myths. Now with this impassioned and incisive book, our foremost Palestinian-American intellectual challenges…
In his final book, completed just before his death, Edward W. Said offers impassioned pleas for the beleaguered Palestinian cause from one of its most eloquent spokesmen. These essays, which…
Said demonstrates that critical discourse has been strengthened by the writings of Derrida and Foucault and by influences like Marxism, structuralism, linguistics, and psychoanalysis. But, he argues, these forces have…
In his last collection of essays, one of the most highly regarded cultural critics of our time examines works produced by Strauss, Beethoven, Thomas Mann, Samuel Beckett, and other artists…
Six lectures discuss what it means to be an intellectual and the role of intellectuals in society.
This collection of literary and cultural essays, the first since 1983’s The World, the Text, and the Critic, reconfirms that Edward Said is the most impressive, consequential, and elegant critic…
A landmark work from the intellectually auspicious author of Orientalism that explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it. Said…
After a fatal medical diagnosis in 1991, Edward Said decided to leave a personal record of his life, one that re-creates the lost Arab world of his childhood in Palestine…
Noam Chomsky,Edward W. Said
Three activist scholars - Noam Chomsky, Edward Said and Ramsey Clark - examine the background and ramifications of the US conflict with Iraq.
William V Spanos
Exiles in the City: Hannah Arendt and Edward W. Said in Counterpoint, by William V. Spanos, explores the affiliative relationship between Arendt’s and Said’s thought, not simply their mutual emphasis…
Examines the intersection of the public and private meaning of music. This book incorporates the music criticism of Adorno, musical ideas from literary works by Proust, and criticism by Benjamin…
The Palestinian experience of displacement within Israel, told through oral history and memory
Edward W. Said,Daniel Barenboim
An account of conversations between the two great intellectuals.
Edward W Said,David Barsamian
Originally published by South End Press in 2003 –Title page verso.
A beautiful new edition of Edward Said’s classic which argues that a beginning is different from (and preferable to) an origin, because a beginning can be chosen and an origin…
Edward Said,David Barsamian
A searing portrait of Palestinian life and identity that is at once an exploration of Edward Said’s dislocated past and a testimony to the lives of those living in exile.
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By considering the emerging social responsibilities of writers and intellectuals in an ever more interconnected world and pointing out that the canonized thinkers of today were yesterday’s revolutionaries, Said makes…
Using the author’s personal letters as a guide to understanding Joseph Conrad’s fiction, this title draws a parallel between Conrad’s view of his own life and the manner and form…
Daniel Barenboim,Edward Said
Stunning account of conversations between these two great intellectuals of our time
Noam Chomsky
A comprehensive indictment of what Noam Chomsky calls the disgraceful and extremely dangerous policy the US has enacted towards Israel.
Terry Eagleton,Edward W. Said
These three essays each deal with a different aspect of nationalism and the role of cultural production as a force in understanding the aftermath of colonization. Focusing particularly on the…
Edward W Said
The voice of the late Edward Said can still be heard in all its trenchant vitality. -Irish Times Books of the Year
Elias Khoury
In this novel, set in modern Lebanon, the narrator is forced to leave home. He fights through the streets of Beirut and up into the mountains, experiences the death of…
Mourid Barghouti
Palestinian poet Barghouti relates his homecoming to Ramallah after 30 years in exile, offering a moving account of what it means to be a Palestinian today. Winner of the Naguib…
Erich Auerbach,Edward W. Said
Shows how from antiquity to the twentieth century literature progressed toward ever more naturalistic and democratic forms of representation. This title offers the optimistic view of European history now appears…
