On Edward Said

Edward Said was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He was the author of more than twenty books, including Orientalism, Culture and Imperialism and On Late Style and his essays and reviews appeared in newspapers and periodicals throughout the world. Edward Said died in September 2003. Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York, an internationally renowned cultural critic, and award-winning author, with over 25 books to his name. He also offers commentary as a current affair essayist and his articles have appeared on major international print, digital, and broadcast media. He is regularly featured on CNN, BBC, CBC, Aljazeera, and other global, national, and local venues. His essays have regularly appeared in al-Ahram Weekly in Egypt, Bir Gun in Turkey, and CNN in the United States. He currently writes a regular column for Aljazeera.

Introduction


One: The Moment of Myth


Two: Mourning Edward Said


Three: Forget reds under the bed, there's Arabs in the attic


Four: For a Fistful of Dust: A Passage to Palestine


Five: Dreams of a Nation


Six: On Exilic Intellectuals


Seven: Paradise Delayed: With Hany Abu‐Assad in Palestine


Eight: On Comprador Intellectuals


Nine: The Discrete Charm of European Intellectuals


Ten: The name that enables: remembering Edward Said


Eleven: Orientalism Today: A Conversation


Twelve: His Unconquerable Soul: Translating Said into another Key


Thirteen: Edward Said's Orientalism: Forty years later


Fourteen: Rosa Luxemburg: The unsung hero of postcolonial theory


Fifteen: Palestine then and Now


Sixteen: Alas, poor Bernard Lewis, a fellow of infinite jest