Udi Greenberg/April 13, 2021 Exiles often have conflicting feelings about their adoptive society, and Edward Said was no exception. As a Palestinian in the United States, he recognized the country’s pervasive racism and violence, but he also knew its educational system made his career as a renowned and prosperous thinker possible. His life was indeed…
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DUBAI: The world will always remember Edward Said as a man of letters with a wide range of interests. Born to Palestinian parents in British-ruled Jerusalem in the 1930s, he became an internationally recognized author, critic, professor, public thinker, gifted pianist, founding figure of postcolonial studies and lifelong proponent of the Palestinian cause. However, in the eyes
Exiles often have conflicting feelings about their
adoptive society, and Edward Said was no exception.
As a Palestinian in the United States, he recognized the country’s pervasive racism and violence, but he also knew
its educational system made his career as a renowned and prosperous thinker possible.
His life was indeed filled with paradoxes and contradictions. He was one of the twentieth century’s most influential anti-colonial writers, who mostly
studied his colonizers’ literature; a proponent of Palestinian liberation who wrote in English and mostly for English-speaking audiences.
Few statements capture his embrace of such tensions more than his surprising claim in an interview with the Israeli newspaper
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