[columbo]

I don't know whether or not this was already posted or discussed, but in case it wasn't....

This is really quite sad. Said had a combination of eloquoence, brilliance, and a passion for opposition that would be hard for any to match.....

I just finished reading a copy of Said's "Reith Lectures" on "Representations of the Intellectual" a week or two ago....Fantastic stuff.

Edward Said Dies; U.S. Scholar Was Leading Voice for Palestinians

September 25, 2003
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS


NEW YORK (AP) -- Edward W. Said, a Columbia University
professor and leading spokesman in the United States for
the Palestinian cause, has died, his editor at Knopf
publishers said Thursday. He was 67.

Said had suffered from leukemia for years and died at a New
York hospital late Wednesday, editor Shelley Wanger said.

Said was born in 1935 in Jerusalem, then part of
British-ruled Palestine, but he spent most of his adult
life in the United States. He wrote passionately about the
Palestinian cause but also on a variety of other subjects,
from English literature, his academic specialty, to music
and culture.

When it came to the Arab-Israeli conflict, Said was
consistently critical of Israel for what he regarded as
mistreatment of the Palestinians.

He wrote two years ago after visits to Jerusalem and the
West Bank that Israel's "efforts toward exclusivity and
xenophobia toward the Arabs" had actually strengthened
Palestinian determination.

"Palestine and Palestinians remain, despite Israel's
concerted efforts from the beginning either to get rid of
them or to circumscribe them so much as to make them
ineffective," Said wrote in the English-language Al-Ahram
Weekly, published in Cairo.

In 2000, he prompted a controversy when he threw a rock
toward an Israeli guardhouse on the Lebanese border.
Columbia University did not censure him, saying that the
stone was directed at no one, no law was broken and that
his actions were protected by principles of academic
freedom.

Said moved to the United States as a student. He received a
bachelor's degree from Princeton in 1957 and a master's and
Ph.D. from Harvard, in 1960 and 1964.

Most of his academic career was spent as a professor at
Columbia University in New York, but he also was a visiting
professor at such leading institutions as Yale, Harvard and
Johns Hopkins.

His books include "The Question of Palestine" in 1979 and
"After the Last Sky" in 1986.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/25/ob...b7af1c81bce642

[Paquadez]

Columbo

See my post with the latest from my friend, Robert Thompson.

http://forums.techguy.org/t167059/s.html

Paq

[columbo]

Originally posted by Paquadez:
Columbo

See my post with the latest from my friend, Robert Thompson.

http://forums.techguy.org/t167059/s.html

Paq

Thanks Paq...I'm assuming your friend had a chance to read Orientalism....

I didn't always agree with Said's politics or opinions on various other matters, but he always wrote with such a rich vocabulary, and (as I said) with such passion for whatever cause or view he was serving as a proponent of.

Culture and Imperialism was another one of his best (in my opinion).

I have wanted to read "Reflections on Exile" for a while, but I can't find it at any local book stores.

[Paquadez]

Robert is now in his early 70s, has been rather unwell, recently, but is recovering.

He has travelled extensively throughout the Middle East and Islamic countries and understands and empathises with their culture.

His knowledge of Arab culture can only be described as encyclopediac (Hm......looks wrong, but I'm sure you know what I mean).

Can't you find the book in a public library?

All the best

Paq

[columbo]

Can't you find the book in a public library?

Unfortunately, no.....There was an.......incident.

[Paquadez]

Oh dear!

Happened here in the late 1800s too, Columbo.

A man named Thomas Payne wrote a book "The Rights of Man".

It was banned as seditious.

There is a copy in the British Library and one day I am determined to read it: when I have a spare week as a researcher!

Have you tried Amazon?

If not, send me a PM and I will put you in touch with a UK seller of secondhand books who can find most things: sure he will post it to you.

Paq

[columbo]

Originally posted by Paquadez:
Oh dear!

Happened here in the late 1800s too, Columbo.

A man named Thomas Payne wrote a book "The Rights of Man".

It was banned as seditious.

There is a copy in the British Library and one day I am determined to read it: when I have a spare week as a researcher!

Have you tried Amazon?

If not, send me a PM and I will put you in touch with a UK seller of secondhand books who can find most things: sure he will post it to you.

Paq

Hey Paq,

I think a friend of mine (old co-worker) actually has a copy of it. Thanks for the offer though.

I actually meant that there was an incident involving the library and myself....rather unfortunate business.

Though I don't believe that (in the time that I had ever spent there) I ever saw any of Said's works.

Unfortunate, but I suppose he wasn't widely read here. Maybe his readership will expand now that he's passed away?

Funny how death can swell the size of one's fan-club, eh?

Sort of like Van Gogh, who couldn't sell a painting until he died.

Columbo