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The Palestinian struggle for justice is especially something with which one expresses solidarity, rather than endless criticism and exasperated, frustrating discouragement, and crippling divisiveness. Remember the solidarity here and everywhere in Latin America, Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia, and remember also that there is a cause to which many people have committed themselves, difficulties and terrible obstacles notwithstanding. Why? Because it is a just cause, a noble ideal, a moral quest for equality and human rights.

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Memory, Inequality and Power: Palestine and the Universality of Human Rights

Edward Said, author of the groundbreaking work "Orientalism" and a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, was one of the most prominent literary and cultural critics in the United States. His writings about the Middle East and its relationship to the West have had a major influence on both scholarship and public opinion. [events] [glopubaffairs]

Edward Said Lecture The Myth of 'The Clash of Civilzations'

In 1993 Harvard Professor Samuel P. Huntington wrote an essay titled "The Clash of Civilizations?" and later he expanded into a book with the same title, but without the question mark. Edward Said, late Columbia professor rips Huntington's thesis to shreds.

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An unacceptable helplessness

By Edward Said One opens The New York Times on a daily basis to read the most recent article about the preparations for war that are taking place in the United States. Another battalion, ...
Posted by Edward W Said (1935-2003) on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 08:47:00 PST

Problems of neoliberalism

By Ewdard Said In the decade after the fall of the Soviet Union, most of the world is in the grip of an ideology whose most dramatic embodiment is currently to be found in the...
Posted by Edward W Said (1935-2003) on Sat, 07 Jul 2007 07:24:00 PST

American Zionism -- the real problem (1)

By Edward Said This is the first article in a series on the misunderstood and misjudged role of American Zionism in the question of Pales...
Posted by Edward W Said (1935-2003) on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 08:01:00 PST

Europe versus America

By Edward Said Although I have visited England dozens of times, I have never spent more than one or two weeks at a single stretch. This year, for the first time, I am in residence for almost two mon...
Posted by Edward W Said (1935-2003) on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 07:46:00 PST

Preface to Orientalism

By Edward Said Nine years ago I wrote an afterword for Orientalism which, in trying to clarify what I believed I had and had not said, stressed not only the many discussions ...
Posted by Edward W Said (1935-2003) on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 07:33:00 PST

Imperial perspectives

By Edward Said The great modern empires have never been held together only by military power but by what activates that power, puts it to use and then reinforces it with daily...
Posted by Edward W Said (1935-2003) on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 05:06:00 PST

A monument to hypocrisy

By Edward Said It has finally become intolerable to listen to or look at news in this country. I've told myself over and over again that one ought to leaf thr...
Posted by Edward W Said (1935-2003) on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 07:37:00 PST

Thoughts about America

By Edward Said I don't know a single Arab or Muslim American who does not now feel that he or she belongs to the enemy camp, and that being in the United States at this m...
Posted by Edward W Said (1935-2003) on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:32:00 PST

Israel, Iraq, and the United States

By Edward Said Many parts of Lebanon were bombed heavily by Israeli warplanes on 4 June, 1982. Two days later the Israeli army entered Lebanon through the country's southern border...
Posted by Edward W Said (1935-2003) on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 11:47:00 PST

The other America

BY Edward Said A small item in the press a few days ago reported that Prince Ibn Al-Walid of Saudi Arabia had donated 10 million dollars to the American University in Cairo to esta...
Posted by Edward W Said (1935-2003) on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 09:08:00 PST