how. did. we party our. candidate attempt on a bus so we can. be a serious. best young how well you can go up as well as you how highly you are. but on a better level because our all we can be any use doesn't. have us mckenna have gained their money how has. the young that word learned the piano and his love of music gave him an escape move from family and from school he was an intelligent pupil but sometimes misbehaved. edward grew up playing and listening to our room and western classical music recordings on the gramophone of the great composer whose and finest performers. will say after little or. any last. say ever cully. will in fact. name on sour. well last seven games. like other palestinians of his generation edward saeed became a living example of exile his early life in egypt coincided with the tumultuous events in the middle east of the one nine hundred forty s. . when in one thousand nine hundred forty eight the british left palestine and the new state of israel was found hundreds of thousands of palestinians were forced from their homes and homeland. the twelve year old edward in cairo didn't yet know how our nakba the catastrophe would later influences life and career. what overcomes me now is the scale of dislocation our family and friends experienced and of which i was scarcely conscious essentially unknowing witness in one nine hundred forty eight. it was through art near me that i first experience palestine as history and cause. it was also she who communicated to me the desolations of being without a country or a place to return to. but i couldn't really comprehend the tragedy that had befallen them nor could i piece together all the different narrative fragments to understand what had really happened in palestine. the palestinian cause was always deep seated and edward's eye intellectual emotional or. physical life. and what made him such an extraordinary scholar an intellectual was that he was always connecting different aspects of his life he never compartmentalize do you know there are many academics for you know the the private the personal one aspect of their life and then the intellectual the professional is another aspect where they're going to say there was an integration of all aspects of of of of being. after nine hundred forty eight saeed family couldn't go back from cairo to jerusalem western losing them had become almost entirely israeli but edwards didn't stay in egypt long he was expelled from school and sent to the east coast of america to boarding school. his first year in massachusetts stirred contradictory feelings in the fifteen year old of low self esteem alienation but also liberation. new york's tremendous scale toweringly silent anonymous buildings reduced one to an inconsequential item making me question what i was to all this. my totally unimportant existence giving me an eerie but momentary sense of liberation for the first time in my life elusively almost imperceptibly palestine would appear and then quickly disappear in our new york lives. that america can mislead what we get is beyond belief no one has really. cared what i meant to me as a lot of my life we were for my ear. we. well you can say of step by law that. the teenager who attended the elite northfield moment home school he found it tough but got top grades and entry to princeton university in new jersey where he got his bachelor's degree. he then won a scholarship to harvard university where he spent five use and got his master's and ph d. in english literature in one nine hundred sixty three. after harvard dr edward saeed joined columbia university in new york city as a member of the faculty of english and comparative literature he stayed until his death in two thousand and three. columbia is one of the top eight ivy league universities in the u.s. where many leading politicians economists and public figures have graduated. columbia also helped to launch. into the refined world of academia and literary criticism though not yet as a middle east specialist in the west or public support of the palestinian. this day a place where i'm sitting right now used to be edward sage office his secretary used to sit in one of the rooms you know down this down this hall and the room that you see here almost everything is as it was where when he was here you know the the book of this book this glass bookcase this desk was edward said that chair was edwards and this was there's ever an office with a lot of history. saeed's endeavor might have remained purely literary and his connection with the arab world simply a family one had it not been for events in the middle east in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven. between the fifth and the tenth of june israel's fault and defeated the combined on of egypt syria and jordan. the nine hundred sixty seven war changed the month of the middle east and still hampers the peace process today but it also had a profound effect on science and. the year nine hundred sixty seven was a devastating year for me and everything i had grown up with i was in america by the time i was alone being in new york there was a sense of triumphalism which appeared for the first time in one amongst the jewish but among everybody where you would walk down the street and people would say how are we doing and it was always understood that was israel you know little state about to be overwhelmed by winning this tremendous victory i was no longer the same person after nine hundred sixty seven the shock of that war drove me back to where it had all started the struggle of a palestine. the p.l.o. was formed in the mid sixty's and began to be a represent recognized as representative of the post and in cause after the sixty seven war and for the attitudes changed enormously u.s. policy changed that if you take a look at the media coverage there's a spike in the one nine hundred sixty seven which has remained very coverage of israel is higher than almost any other country since that and this became a leading issue in american political life internationally as well in the advert was of course of that and it is quite true that his direct engagement. in the issue really traces of one nine hundred sixty seven bad service at the end and that after they were bought up at this house at the inside brain. than they did then there's had left a hole then imagine myle them and who we had for less than a i love them then my gun i had done. and them a second to my fellow man and. i will stop that a little hope for the moth i'm not all up and hawing according. to him as lesser man up. we do in eighty so i'll out that had. been the hoodie that you saw him one year courses that months and i and walk out from the scene they have that. saeed's preoccupation with the arab world began to manifest itself in his academic work literary criticism and polemical writing. he began studying the cultural portrayal of arab peoples and places and writing the visual arts and media. he explored the relationship between the enlightenment which underpinned much of western high culture and philosophy and colonialism. this led to the publication of his most influential book orientalism in one thousand nine hundred seventy eight a work often considered to have forced westerners to reexamine their perceptions of the islamic world. this book grew in ways i hadn't foreseen and then suddenly became something much more it became the whole history of the representation of the other. i think it was one of the first books to try to do that. the book wasn't just a scholarly thing but also explained clichés i had been used to govern the colonial state. road the book was very original innovative and perceptive an acute study of the way in which the the others the east is used to is the you or adult countries were depicted interpreted and understood in the scullery literature of the west review two of the but also in the general culture but what it did was open it open minds to a willingness among many people at least to consider their own biases. predilections a. tacit beliefs and esca whether these were distorting and modifying or interpretation of other cultures and would say that and based on them the story might if it were happening to him with the pope feeling it's got initiated what is. it a hundred feet. labrador assisting items that would be delusion we be it is shock or be with our team while we were back to our ship. while your mind had a little of the of the you know but i don't but that he has that he has that he has in a month if we can get. a little about said the philistine he misses the pleasures that many minute there was sort of people couldn't decipher what he did. in showing how the western misled itself in its literature its novels. was the first time we saw a western speaking intellectual that it passed in it who tried to show us the folly of oriental if paintings oriental if that richer the arabs always had to be represented as his aging rather sullen lifeless people who obviously needed western help to raise them to the heights of civilization and edward got love across very well in orientalism i mean he he thought of that from the start and i think that after that i mean it became as a study in itself in the united states after he wrote that book. saeed's influential writing around him almost superstar status in some u.s. academic circles and he was a leading figure in a group of elite intellectual palestinian americans that began to emerge in the mid seventy's and eighty's. their aim of creating a new image of the palestinians in the american mind provoked huge has to lety in pro israeli new york in specially as saeed continued to attack israeli violations of human rights of palestinians and condemned u.s. policy on the middle east. prominent palestinians came under attack from both sides from the far right jewish defense league of the j d l and from other muslims as mel photokina of temple university in 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january has accused president trump of dishonesty over his response to the murder of jamal khashoggi adam schiff says donald trump's links to saudi arabia need to be investigated. the u.n. special envoy for yemen is due in saudi arabia on monday for talks with the yemeni government leaders in exile martin gryphus trip to riyadh follows a meeting with the rebel leaders in yemen is trying to get all sides to attend talks in sweden early next month millions of yemenis are facing famine after three and a half years of civil war. charles president idriss deby says he wants a new era of cooperation with israel as he makes a landmark trip to the country as a first visit by a chaldean leader since the two sides broke off relations in one thousand nine hundred eighty two well those were the headlines is continues here on al-jazeera al-jazeera world stage of that soldier. who is an american palestinian writer and academic whose influential nine hundred seventy eight orientalism challenge to western preconceptions about arabs and the arab world. born in jerusalem in the one nine hundred thirty s. he later became one of the most prominent champions of the palestinian cause in the west making him a controversial figure in the arab israeli conflict. although he only spent early childhood years in the middle east he none the less experienced a strong sense of displacement throughout his life and career in america expressed most articulately in his nine hundred ninety nine memoir out of place as an outspoken critic of israel in the u.s. he suffered verbal and physical attacks. edward had to deal with all kinds of terrible events this very often he was there were people who tried to break in to us off and this is one reason why your notice at the door it's a very heavy door there's a reason for that not all the offices in philosophy hall have that kind of door and the reason you might have noticed every boat was because they tried to break into his office so it's all connected to the professor of terror you know it came out of that terrible ugly moment. saeed found himself increasingly absorbed by east west cultural studies as well as palestine and the arab israeli conflict this was expressed in his published writing. he was born into a christian family in west jerusalem though he was not a religious man but this did not stop him arguing strongly in covering islam that the western media distorts the image of islam. in the question of palestine in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine he traced the clash between two middle eastern people followed by his first book on structuralist literary critical theory here texts the book called the world the text and they pretty remains singular achievement of his literary. now after the publication of orientalism and soon after orientalism cultural imperialism that those two books became so important in the field of course growing on the studies that they overshadow his military work but the fact is that increasingly if you go from one university to another in u.s. europe the arab world etc you will see that the significance of his need to really work is increasingly coming to the surface and in fact i would even venture to say without understanding his literary disposition his preoccupation with the question of my nieces we cannot understand orientalism and. harboring islam and so who are the two aspects of the scholarship are interrelated the man if we show you the facility with him with the heavy metal. madoff steve biko can you acquire cilla if he had come in who are cool mom or in. what to what that is central awful a mock when because of mr malik at the well maliki was with adverts aid the method that just came in the middle. of the four for the other than ever the minutes the first one is that the minister in the who fickle let the stock part and to develop the gasoline are to many asian who are let me let me can run for it was rude to be . really good most would have been about the current will assist with setting the so we you but there are certain i will call and ye will be enough. for again who is our wanted there to be what can yet free in other words they use gotta have that there are bad for a livin and it can have been this one you might think say not. only. one of so he does most read ses who is called reflections on exile in and he explores the relationship between his. own exile and that of palestinians. he sees exile as a state of mind as much as a physical reality a psychological condition shared by those rejecting regional and local ties including their native country. saeed's exile meant putting distance between him and his cultural identity and he decided that it could ultimately be a valuable human condition. exile in the words of wallace stevens there's a mind of winter in which the path of summer and autumn as much as the potential of spring are nearby but on obtainable. exile is the and healable rift force between a human being and a native place between the self and its true home. the essential sadness of the break can never be surmounted. the achievements of any exile are permanently undermined by his or her sense of loss. record commitment. who paid the who can live you have got the listed among our. circle of lot of me you will are let me of civilians in but alameda which are other. cities under full steam to see they has a shot of pollutants in it was sort of meant for billionaire. fishes to get business didn't work. them of whom. they were the real good side much as i said kenya and the nuns for highly and they live there well econd the law there lead him up there and miller the un does it down the devil mckenney at the bit and nor can you there is course again that is most of the columbia as an intellectual exile meant for the coffee or keyboard along with a coffee in an island meaningly who'd thirty feet on with their wrists and this one yet got helen with a cough and was stunned i will look at your travel. for love car. ride definitely only. a definite if you will miss them or. in one thousand nine hundred seventy seven saeed was elected to the palestinian national council as an independent the p. and c. is the legislative body of the palestine liberation organization the p.l.o. a kind of parliament representing all palestinians in the occupied territories and elsewhere. he tried to avoid factional infighting making what he felt were strategic interventions what it meant. what it meant sharper not obey you with. the army you are not about were about not. at a meeting of the p.m.c. in algiers in november one thousand nine hundred eighty eight p.l.o. chairman yasser arafat made the palestinian declaration of independence it had been written by the palestinian poet and author mahmoud darwish but that would sayit had also had a prominent role in drafting the declaration proclaimed the establishment of the state of palestine effectively the two state solution. he was that he was very close to a part of the person in the national council and he was also very critical of the many of their positions he was very independent minded. that no can at the idea and then yes that there was sort of a lemon yet it can last out on our side and my home advice as a lot of fat. well i can now get married like that when son son and got out can i read an essay last up and they did and yet. they had the. sabbath and still not walk out of this thing in mind that this thing. cannot have a hellish shadow home. yes that they are and the of a of them in the bethel and the whole that is in mecca and. stuff is. in one hundred ninety one edward sayed was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia he had to undergo extensive chemotherapy and fought his illness for the next twelve years. the suffering he experienced forced him to go back to his childhood and reevaluated his past he began work on the revealing biography of his our early life out of place. by the time i began treatment in march one thousand nine hundred four i realized that i had at least entered if not the final phase of my life then the period back item in leaving the garden. and main one thousand nine hundred four i began work on this book these details are important as a way of explaining to myself and to my reader how the time of this book is intimately tied to the time phases ups and downs variations in my own this. lemon. and all of the ed if what if and. and mara can it sub mccleary l.-o. l. and lock in a while i don't care about the lay up get our house a house in single. bottle and. be a while. well let can get me soppy all i had now at kilwa that they're now blah no doubt diagnosis of leukemia was extremely important at what size psychological intellectual disposition suddenly without expectation he faced his mortality but as he said in an interview all it took was just one picture of ariel sharon to send him back to his. moral courageous imagination he never buckled down at the face of death saeed's illness brought feelings of loss flooding back to him he later described it as attempting to return to bits of life or people who were no longer there he wrote about trying to find a place to die. in one thousand nine hundred two he went back to west to say to the toby a neighborhood where he was born he reportedly walked the streets searching for his family's old homes where he'd spent his early years and which he'd left forty five years before. but the story goes that when he found the house he was simply unable to ask the owners if he could look inside. i could not meet loss face to face. i stood by the door like a beggar. how could i ask permission from strangers sleeping in my own bed ask them if i could visit myself for five minutes should i bow in respect to the residents of my childish dream would they are ask who is that prying foreign visitor low level of every. what headlines already. been this way i will can't hear what they. have.

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