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 commentery 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