Edward Wadie Said
Professor Edward Wadie Said was born on 1st November 1935 in Jerusalem (then in the British Mandate of Palestine) and died on 25th September 2003 at the age of 67 years in New York City, USA. His father was a wealthy Protestant Palestinian businessman and an American citizen who had served under General Pershing in World War I, while his mother was born in Nazareth also of Christian Palestinian descent. His sister was the historian and writer Rosemarie Said Zahlan. He referred to himself as a "Christian wrapped in a Muslim culture". In his formative years, he lived in both Cairo and Jerusalem before his family moved to the USA. He attended the Anglican St. Georges Academy in Jerusalem in 1947. In 1948, his entire family became refugees in Egypt during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
In the USA, he attended different schools and in 1957 he earned an A.B. (Artium Baccaleureus/Bachelor of Arts) from Princeton University, an MA in 1960 from Harvard University where he won he won the Bowdoin Prize. He joined the faculty of Columbia University in 1963 and served as Professor of English and Comparative Literature for several decades. In 1977 Said became the Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia and subsequently became the Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities. In 1992 he attained the rank of University Professor, Columbia's most prestigious academic position. Professor Said also taught at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and Yale universities. He was fluent in English, French, and Arabic.
Said was bestowed with numerous honorary doctorates from universities around the world and twice received Columbia's Trilling Award and the Wellek Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association. The Institute of Social Studies awarded its honorary doctorate to Said in 2002.His autobiographical memoir Out of Place won the 1999 New Yorker Prize for non-fiction. He was also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Royal Society of Literature, and the American Philosophical Society. Said's writing regularly appeared in The Nation, The Guardian, the London Review of Books, Le Monde Diplomatique, Counterpunch, Al Ahram, and the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat. He gave interviews alongside his good friend, fellow political activist, and colleague Noam Chomsky regarding U.S. foreign policy for various independent radio programs.
Honorary Degree at ISS: Orientalism once more (2003) / Edward W. Said / The Hague: ISS, 2003. Lecture delivered on the occasion of the awarding of the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa on the 50th anniversary of the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands, 21st May 2003.
Bibliography
Books
Music at the Limits / by Edward W. Said, New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. |
Musical Writings / by Edward W. Said, New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2007. |
A Method for Thinking about Just Peace / Edward W. Said, in What Is A Just Peace? Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. |
Edward Said: A Memorial Issue. Social text, 87. / by Edward W. Said; Patrick Deer; Gyan Prakash; Ella Shohat, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. |
Late Style / by Edward W. Said, London: Bloomsbury, 2006. |
On Late Style: Music and Literature against the Grain / by Edward W. Said, New York: Pantheon Books, 2006. |
Edward Said: Continuing the Conversation/ by Edward W. Said; Homi Bhabha; Thomas Mitchell, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. |
From Oslo to Iraq and the Roadmap/ by Edward W. Said, London: Bloomsbury, 2004. |
Humanism and democratic criticism / Edward W. Said, New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2004. |
Intellectual Work: New formations, no. 53/ by Edward W. Said; Scott McCracken, London: Lawrence & Wishart, 2004. |
Interviews with Edward W. Said. Conversations with public intellectuals series / by Edward W. Said; Amritjit Singh; Bruce Johnson, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2004. |
Palestinians under Siege / by Edward Said, in Defining the Horrific: Readings on Genocide and Holocaust in The Twentieth Century, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2004. |
Power, Politics and Culture: Interviews with Edward W. Said / by Edward W. Said W; Gauri Viswanathan, London: Bloomsbury, 2004. |
Power, politics and culture: interviews with Edward W. Said / ed. and with an introduction by Gauri Viswanathan / by Edward Wadie Said and Gauri Viswanathan, London: Bloomsbury, 2004. |
The Clash of Ignorance / by Edward Said, in Essential Readings in World Politics, New York, NY: Norton, 2004. |
Culture and Resistance: Conversations with Edward W. Said / by Edward W. Said; David Barsamian, London: Pluto, 2003. |
Freud and the Non-European / by Edward W. Said; Jacqueline Rose, London: Verso, 2003. |
Orientalism / by Edward W. Said, Penguin classics. London: Penguin, 2003. |
Orientalism Once More / by Edward W. Said, The Hague: ISS, 2003. |
Parallels and Paradoxes / by Edward W. Said; Daniel Barenboim, London: Bloomsbury, 2003. |
Grand Street 70: Against Nature /by Edward W. Said, New York: Grand Street Press, 2002. |
The End of the Peace Process: Oslo and After / by Edward W. Said. London: Granta, 2002. |
Fuera de lugar: memorias / by Edward W. Said; Xabier Calvo (Barcelona): Grijalbo, 2001. |
Power, Politics, and Culture: Interviews with Edward W. Said/ by Edward W. Said; Gauri Viswanathan, New York: Pantheon Books, 2001. |
Reflections on exile and other essays / by Edward W. Said, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000. |
The Edward Said Reader / by Edward W. Said; Moustafa Bayoumi; Andrew Rubin, New York: Vintage Books, 2000. |
The End of the Peace Process: Oslo and After / by Edward W. Said, New York: Pantheon Books, 2000. |
After the Last Sky: Palestinian Lives / by Edward W. Said; Jean Mohr, New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1999. |
Not Quite Right / by Edward W. Said, London: Granta, 1999. |
Out of Place: A Memoir / by Edward W. Said, New York: Knopf, 1999. |
Beginnings: Intention and Method / by Edward W. Said, London: Granta, 1998. |
Culture and imperialism / by Edward W. Said. Dar al-Adab, 1997. |
From Silence to Sound, Back Again: Music Literature and History/ by Edward W. Said: Given at the Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh on Tuesday 17 June 1997 During the Fiftieth Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts, The Prince of Hesse memorial lecture, 1997. Aldeburgh: Britten-Pears Library, 1997. |
Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World. London / by Edward W. Said: Vintage, 1996. |
Representations of the Intellectual: the 1993 Reith lectures / Edward W. Said, New York: Vintage Books, 1996. |
Peace and Its Discontents: Essays on Palestine in the Middle East Peace Process / by Edward W. Said, New York: Vintage Books, 1995. |
Cultural readings of imperialism: Edward Said and the gravity of history / ed. by Keith Ansell-Pearson, Benita Parry and Judith Squires, London: Lawrence & Wishart. Essays from an international conference on "The politics of identity: Edward Said's work and the Gravity of history", Warwick University, March 1994 and from a conference on "Culture and imperialism" held at the University of Bristol in January 1994. |
The Pen and the Sword: Conversations with David Barsamian / by Edward W. Said W; David Barsamian, Edinburgh: AK, 1994. |
The politics of dispossession: the struggle for Palestinian self-determination, 1969-1994 / Edward W. Said, London: Chatto & Windus, 1994. |
Cultural Imperialism / by Edward W. Said, Knopf, 1993. |
Culture & imperialism / Edward W. Said, London: Vintage Books, 1993. |
The Question of Palestine / by Edward W. Said, London: Vintage, 1992. |
Identity, Authority and Freedom: The Potentate and the Traveller / by Edward W. Said, T.B. Davie memorial lecture, 31. (Cape Town): University of Cape Town, 1991. |
Musical Elaborations: The Wellek library lectures at the University of California / by Edward W. Said, Irvine. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991. |
Orientalism / by Edward W. Said, London: Penguin Books, 1991. |
Peace in the Middle East / by Edward W. Said, Westfield, N.J.: Open Media, 1991. |
The World, the Text, and the Critic / by Edward W. Said, London: Vintage, 1991. |
Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question/ by Edward W. Said; Christopher Hitchens, London: Verso, 1987/1988. |
Information and misinformation in Euro-Arab relations: Euro-Arab Dialogue Lectures III, December 17, 1987 / Eric Rouleau, Edward Said, The Hague: Lutfia Rabbani Foundation, 1988. |
Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature: Yeats and Decolonization: A Field Day pamphlet, no. 15/by Edward W. Said, Derry: Field Day, 1988. |
Yeats and Decolonization/ by Edward W. Said: A Field Day pamphlet, 15 Lawrence Hill, Derry: Field Day Theatre Comp, 1988. |
The Palestinians: Profile of a People / by Edward W. Said. Kingston, A.C.T.: Palestine Information Office, 1987. |
After the Last Sky: Palestine Lives / by Edward W. Said. Essex: Faber & Faber, 1986. |
After the Last Sky: Palestinian Lives / by Edward W. Said; Jean Mohr, New York: Pantheon Books, 1986. |
Literature and Society /by Edward W. Said, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. |
Beginnings: Intention and Method / by Edward W. Said, New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1985. |
The Palestinians: Profile of a People / by Edward W. Said, Carlton, Vic: Palestine Information Centre, 1984. |
The World, the Text, and the Critic / by Edward W. Said, London: Faber, 1984. |
A Profile of the Palestinian People / by Edward W. Said, Chicago, IL: Palestine Human Rights Campaign, 1983. |
Egyptian Rites / by Edward W. Said, New York: The Village Voice, 1983. |
Reflections on Orientalism / by Edward Said; Roger Bresnahan; Surjit Dulai; Edward Graham; Donald Ned Lammers and Warren Cohen, East Lansing, Michigan: Asian Studies Center, Michigan State University, 1983. |
The World, the Text, and the Critic / by Edward W. Said, Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1983. |
The World, the Text, and the Critic / by Edward W. Said. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Univ. Pr, 1983. |
The Politics of Interpretation / by Edward W. Said. Chicago: Critical Inquiry, 1982. |
Covering Islam: how the media and the experts determine how we see the rest of the world / by Edward W. Said, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981. |
Literature and Society: Selected Papers from the English Institute, 1978 /by Edward W. Said, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980. |
The Palestine Question and the American Context / by Edward W. Said, Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1979. |
The Question of Palestine / Edward W. Said, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979. |
Orientalism / Edward W. Said, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978. |
Beginnings: Intention and Method / by Edward W. Said, New York: Basic Books, 1975. |
The Arabs Today: Alternatives for Tomorrow / by Edward W. Said; Fuad Suleiman, Columbus, Ohio: Forum Associates, 1973. |
Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography /by Edward W. Said, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1966. |
The Letters and the Shorter Fiction of Joseph Conrad, by Edward W. Said: Thesis (Ph. D.)- Harvard University, 1964. |
Articles
“Books – On Late Style”, by Anthony Daniels; Edward Said, The spectator: a weekly review of politics, literature, theology and art, (27 05), 2006. |
“La Función Del Intelectual” by Edward Said, Claves de razón práctica (163), 2006. |
“Nonfiction - On Late Style: Music and Literature against the Grain”, by Edward W. Said; Edward Rothstein, The New York Times Book Review, (16) (07), 2006. |
“Notes de lecture - Freud und das Nicht-Europäische”, by Edward Said; Rolf Schwarz, Relations Internationales, (125), 2006. |
“On Late Style” by Frank Kermode; Edward Said, The London Review of Books, 28 (19)2006. |
“Reviews – Review Essay: The Humanistic Legacy of Edward Said - Freud and the Non-European”, by Edward Said; S. Shankar, MELUS: the journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, 31 (4) 2006. |
“Reviews – Review Essay: The Humanistic Legacy of Edward Said - Humanism and Democratic criticism” by Edward Said; S. Shankar, MELUS: the journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, 31 (4) 2006. |
“Reviews –Featured Review - Reflections on Exile and Other Essays Said”, by Edward Said; A. Hibbard, Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 40 (2), 2006. |
“Reviews –Featured Review - Reflections on Exile and Other Essays”, by Edward W. Said; Allen Hibbard, Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 40 (2), 2006. |
“Vitrine - Humanisme En Démocratie”, by Edward W. Saïd; Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun, La quinzaine littéraire, (914), 2006. |
“Islam and the West - Humanism and Democratic Criticism” by Yahya Birt; Edward Said, The Muslim World Book Review, 25 (4), 2005. |
“Reviews – From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map”, by Tareq Y. Ismael; Edward Said, International Journal: quarterly of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs, 60 (3), 2005. |
“Reviews – Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature”, by Erich Auerbach; Edward Said; Peter F. Dembowski, Romance Philology, 58 (2), 2005. |
"La langue arabe, la Rolls et la Volkswagen", by Edward W. Said, Le Monde Diplomatique, 51 (605), 2004 |
“Books – Freud and the Non-European”, by Edward Said; Derek Hook, The Psychoanalytic Review, 91 (1), 2004. |
“Du choc des définitions”, by Edward Said, Le Monde Diplomatique, 51 (606), 2004. |
“Erich Auerbach, Critic of the Earthly World” by Edward Said, Boundary 2: a journal of postmodern literature and culture, 31 (2), 2004. |
“Erich Auerbach, Critic of the Earthly World”, by Edward W. Said, Boundary, 2 (31), 2004. |
“La langue arabe, la Rolls et la Volkswagen”, by Edward Said, Le Monde Diplomatique, 51 (605), 2004. |
“Orientalism Once More”, by Edward Said, Development and Change, 35 (5), 2004. |
“Thoughts on Late Style”, by Edward Said, The London Review of Books, 26 (15), 2004. |
"Guerre D'irak - Une autre facon de voir les Etats-Unis", by Edward W. Said, Le Monde Diplomatique, 50 (588), 2003. |
"L'humanisme, dernier rempart contre la barbarie", by Edward W. Said, Le Monde Diplomatique, 50, (594), 2003. |
“A Road Map to Where?” by Edward Said, in The London Review Of Books, 25 (12), 2003. |
“Analysen - Essays - Standpunkte - Debatten - Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung - Wie die Palästinenser befriedet werden sollen”, by Edward Said, in Internationale Politik, 58 (10) , 2003. |
“Books - Freud and the Non-European”, by Ferris, Paul; Edward W. Said, The Spectator (38), 2003. |
“Books – Freud and the Non-European”, by Paul Ferris; Edward Said, in The spectator: a weekly review of politics, literature, theology and art, 10 (05), 2003. |
“Books & The Arts - Solomon: Late Beethoven: Music, Thought, Imagination. BUCH: Beethoven's Ninth: A Political History. LOCKWOOD: Beethoven: The Music and the Life”, by Edward W. Said, The Nation, 277 (6) (38) 2003. |
“Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830-67”, by Edward Said; Catherine Hall in The London Review of Books, 25 (6), 2003. |
“Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung : wie die Palästinenser befriedet werden sollen” , by Edward Said, in Internationale Politik, 58 (10), 2003. |
“Diary”, by Edward Said, in The London Review of Books, 25 (8) (17 04), 2003. |
“L'humanisme, dernier rempart contre la barbarie” by Edward Said, in Le Monde Diplomatique, 50 (594), 2003. |
“Palestine” by David Hajdu; Joe Sacco; Edward Said, in The New York Review of Books, 50 (13), 2003. |
“Politics - Freud and the Non-European”, by Hari, Johann; Edward W. Said, TLS, the Times Literary Supplement, 5231 (8) 2003 |
“Reviews – Freud and the Non-European”, by Edward Said; Mark C. Molesky, Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought, 52 (3-4), 2003. |
“Social Studies – Parallels and Paradoxes - Music in Society”, by Richard Sennett; Daniel Barenboim; Edward Said, in The Times Literary Supplement, (5229), 2003. |
“Waardigheid en solidariteit”, by Edward Said in Soera: tijdschrift over het Midden-Oosten, 11 (3) , 2003. |
"Articles - A New Current In Palestine - It's Too Soon to Call It a Party, but There's Now a Popular, Independent Group", by Edward W. Said, The Nation, 274 (4) (14), 2002. |
“Articles – A New Current in Palestine - It's too soon to call it a party, but there's now a popular, independent group”, by Edward Said, in The Nation: a weekly journal devoted to politics, literature, science and art, 274 (4), 2002. |
“Books - Reflections on Exile”, by Sumption, Jonathan, and Edward W. Said, The Spectator, (46)2002 |
“Books –Reflections on Exile”, by Jonathan Sumption; Edward Said, in The spectator: a weekly review of politics, literature, theology and art, 16 (03), 2002. |
“En este n umero Acabar Con El Terrorismo Un Objetivo Metaf Isico El sentido real de la crisis” by Edward Said, in Le Monde Diplomatique, 49 (574), 2002. |
“Gespräch mit Daniel Barenboim” by Edward Said, in Sinn und Form : Beiträge zur Literatur, 54 (5) , 2002. |
“Iraq, Palestine and 'Us'” by Edward Said, in The London Review of Books, 24 (20), 2002. |
“Israel, Irak Y Estados Unidos” by Edward Said in Claves de razón práctica, (127), 2002. |
“Living in Arabic” by Edward Said, in Raritan: A Quarterly Review, 21 (4), 2002. |
“Mixed Media - Books: - Reflections on Exile”, by Edward W. Said, New Internationalist, 343(31), 2002. |
“Música - Barenboim y el tabú sobre Wagner” by Edward Said, in Claves de razón práctica, (119), 2002. |
“Punishment by Detail”, by Edward Said, in Monthly review: an independent socialist magazine, 54 (5), 2002. |
“Recensioni – Orientalismo” by Edward W. Said; Stefano Guerriero, in Belfagor : rassegna di varia umanità, 57 (2) , 2002. |
“Reviews - Impossible Histories - Why the Many Islams Cannot Be Simplified”, by Edward W. Said, Harper's, (67), 2002. |
“Wat Israël heeft gedaan” by Edward Said, in De groene Amsterdammer: weekblad voor Nederland, 126 (18) 4th May 2002. |
“What Israel Has Done - Seeking to eliminate the Palestinians as a people, it is destroying their civil life”, by Edward Said, in The Nation: a weekly journal devoted to politics, literature, science and art, 274 (17), 2002. |
“What Israel Has Done - Seeking to Eliminate the Palestinians As a People, It Is Destroying Their Civil Life”, by Edward W. Said, The Nation, 274 (17) (20), 2002. |
Mixed Media BOOKS – “Reflections on Exile” by Edward Said, in New internationalist: the people, the ideas, the action in the fight for world development, (343), 2002. |
“A People In Need Of Leadership” by Edward Said, in The New Left Review, issue 11 (01 09), 2001. |
“Articles - The Clash Of Ignorance - Labels Like "Islam" and "the West" Serve Only to Confuse Us About a Disorderly Reality”, by Edward W. Said 2001The Nation, 273 (12) (11), 2001. |
“Books & the Arts - The Public Role of Writers and Intellectuals”, by Edward W. Said, The Nation, 273(8) (27), 2001. |
“Special Topic: Globalizing Literary Studies - Talks from the Convention - Globalizing Literary Study”, by Edward W. Said, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 116 (1), 2001. |
“Editorials & Comment - The End of Oslo”, by Edward W. Said, The Nation, 271 (13) (4), 2000. |
“Invention, Memory, and Place”, by Edward W. Said, Critical Inquiry, 26(2), 2000. |
“An American Tragedy”, by Edward W. Said, The Nation, 268 (2) (7), 1999. |
“Arafat in the Fire”, by Edward W. Said, The Nation, 269 (21) (5), 1999. |
“Eqbal Ahmad, 1933-99”, by Edward W. Said, The Nation, 268, (20) (6), 1999. |
“Gaza Stripped”, by Edward W. Said, The Nation, 268, (1) (6), 1999. |
“Leaving Palestine”, by Edward W. Said, The New York Review of Books, 46 (14), 1999. |
“Tony Tanner”, by Edward W. Said, Critical Quarterly, 41 (2), 1999. |
“An Orphaned People - Palestinians Are Nearly Powerless to Help One Another”, by Edward W. Said The Nation, 266 (16) (18), 1998. |
“Books & The Arts - Music: Bach for the Masses”, by Edward W. Said, The Nation, 267 (7) (41), 1998. |
“Music - La Cenerentola: The Rake's Progress”, Edward W. Said, The Nation, 266 (2) (31), 1998. |
“Bombs and Bulldozers”, by Edward W. Said, The Nation, 265 (7) (4), 1997. |
“The Real Meaning of the Hebron Agreement”, by Edward W. Said, Journal of Palestine Studies, 26 (3) (31), 1997. |
“Bookless In Gaza”, by Edward W. Said, 1996. The Nation, 263 (8) (6), 1996. |
“Miller: God Has Ninety-Nine Names: Reporting From a Militant Middle East”, by Edward W. Said, The Nation, 263 (5) (28), 1996. |
“Music: Hindemith and Mozart”, by Edward W. Said, The Nation, 262 (22) (41), 1996. |
“Music”, by Edward W. Said, The Nation, 261, (15) (548), 1995. |
“Oslo I to Oslo II: The Mirage of Peace”, by Edward W. Said, The Nation, 261 (12) (413), 1995. |
“Projecting Jerusalem”, by Edward W. Said, Journal of Palestine Studies, 25 (1) 1995 |
“Book Review: Culture and Imperialism by Michael Sprinker; Edward W. Said, Modernism/Modernity, 1(3), 1994. |
“Homage to a Belly-Dancer”, by Edward W. Said, Arabesque, 20 (1), 1994. |
“Irangate: A Many-Sided Crisis”, by Edward W. Said, Journal of Palestine Studies (164), 1987 |
“The Burdens of Interpretation and the Question of Palestine”, by Edward W. Said, Journal of Palestine Studies, (161), 1986. |
“Permission to Narrate”, by Edward W. Said, Journal of Palestine Studies, (133), 1984. |
Other resources
Edward Said’s Personal website
Edward Said on Wikipedia
Edward Said on Americans Who Tell the Truth website
How the FBI spied on Prof. Said
Edward W. Said: A Bibliography, compiled by Eddie Yeghiayan
Edward Said dossier (Le Monde diplomatique)
Edward Said Review in ‘The Hudson Review’
Edward W. Said, intellectual by Bruce Bawer, The Hudson Review, Winter 2002
Where the Twain Should Have Met by Christopher Hitchens, The Atlantic Monthly, September 2003
"Remembering Edward Said (1935-2003)”, obituary and tribute by Tariq Ali published in The New Left Review.
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