Edward Said

The Mahalo Top 7

1. Wikipedia: Edward Said
2. The Edward Said Archive: Articles By and About Edward Said and His Works
3. The Guardian: "Writing to the Moment" (September 25, 2004) 
4. The Nation: "The Rootless Cosmopolitan: Edward Said" (July 19, 2004)
5. New Left Review: "Remembering Edward Said" (November, 2003)
6. Blog: An Introduction to Edward Said, Orientalism, and Postcolonial Literary Studies 
7. YouTube: Edward Said: On Orientalism (Time 06:00) 
   
   
   

Edward Said Background and Profiles

Orientalism

• Wikipedia: Orientalism
• Orientalism.org: Orientalism: The Basics
• The Canadian Review: "Disraeli as an Orientalist" (September 19, 2005) (102KB) 
• The Film Journal: "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom as Virtual Reality" (April, 2005)
• CounterPunch: "Orientalism 25 Years Later: Worldly Humanism v. the Empire-Builders" (August 4, 2003)
• The Nation: "The Clash of Ignorance" (October 22, 2001)
• The New Criterion: "Edward Said’s “Orientalism revisited” (January, 1999)
• The Nation: "Islam Through Western Eyes" (April 26, 1980)

On Israel and Palestine

• The Palestinian Chronicle: "The Political Legacy of Edward Said" (December 21, 2003)
• The Nation: "What Israel Has Done" (May 6, 2002)
• Media Monitors Network: "Thinking Ahead" (April 5, 2002)
• The Nation: "A New Current in Palestine" (February 4, 2002)
• Le Monde Diplomatique: "Israel-Palestine: a Third Way" (September, 1998)
• Le Monde Diplomatique: "Palestine has Not Disappeared" (May, 1998)

Controversy Over Early Life

• FreeRepublic: Commentary: "'My Beautiful Old House' and Other Fabrications" (September, 1999) 
• CounterPunch: "Commentary "Scholar" Deliberately Falsified Record" (September 1, 1999) 
• Al-Ahram Weekly News: "Defamation, Zionist-Style" (September 1, 1999) 

Stone Throwing Controversy

• Wikimedia: Picture of Edward Said Thowing a Stone
• Al-Ahram Weekly News: " Freud, Zionism, and Vienna" (March 21, 2001) 
• Democracy Now!: "New York Times Casts Stones at Edward Said" (March 14, 2001)
• New York Times: "Columbia Debates a Professor's 'Gesture'" (October 19, 2000)

Criticism of US Foreign Policy

• ZNet: Edward Said Archives
• CounterPunch: "How the FBI Spied on Edward Said" (January 13, 2006)
• ZNet: "Imperial Perspectives" (July 24, 2003)
• CounterPunch: "Who's In Charge?" (March 8, 2003)
• UC Berkley News: "Edward Said Scorns U.S. Military Action Against Iraq..." (February 20, 2003)
• The Progressive: "Edward Said Interview" (September, 2001)
• The Nation: "The Essential Terrorist" (June 14, 1986)

Edward Said Video and Media

• YouTube & Google Video: Edward Said
• Georgetown University: Humanism, Freedom, and the Critic: Edward W. Said and After (Time 22:46)
• Google Video: Edward Said Lecture The Myth of 'The Clash of Civilzations' (52:03)
• YouTube: Memory, Inequality and Power (Time 01:38:37)
• Google Video: Edward said on Culture and Imperialism (Time 59:56)
• YouTube: Edward Said on Orientalism (Time 10:56)
  • Part 2 (Time 09:54)
  • Part 3 (Time 10:45)
  • Part 4 (Time 07:47)

Edward Said Images

• Google Image Search: Edward Said
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• Live Search Images: Edward Said
• Flickr: Edward Said

Edward Said Books and Research

• University of California at Irvine: Edward Said Bibliography
• CounterTrak: "Edward Said and the Production of Knowledge" (May 5, 2007) (15KB) 
• Duke University Press: "Risky Business: Edward Said as Literary Critic" (2005) (116KB) 
• openDemocracy: "Edward Said: the Traveller and the Exile" (September 2, 2003) (193KB) 
• Cambridge University Press: "Edward Said and the Religious Effects of Culture" (2000) (324KB) 
• Amazon: Orientalism

Edward Said Commentary and Criticism

• The Times: "Where Edward Said Was Wrong" (May 17, 2006) 
• The Hudson Review: "Edward W. Said, Intellectual" (Winter, 2002)
• Campus Watch: "Edward Said" (September 29, 2003)
• MyWire: "Where the Twain Should Have Met" (September 1, 2003)
• Camera Update: "Edward Said's Documented Deceptions" (August, 1999)

Edward Said Blogs and Message Boards

• Cinnamon Stillwell: Further Musings on Edward Said, San Francisco State University...
• Full Moon Fever: Throwing a pebble: Freud, Edward Said and the Question of Palestine
• HijabMan: What Bollinger Could Learn From Edward Said (And Berkeley!)
• 3quarksdaily: Edward W. Said, 1935 - 2003

Edward Said Timeline

• 1935: November 1, Edward Said is born Jerusalem
• 1935-1947: Said lives in both Cairo and Jerusalem
• 1947: Attends St. George's College
• 1948: Family home is annexed as a result of the Arab-Israeli War
• 1950-1962: Said attends the Mount Hermon School, then Princeton University and Harvard University
• 1963: Joins the faculty of Columbia University
• 1971: FBI surveillance of Said begins
• 1999: Said is elected president of the Modern Language Society
• 2003: September 25, Edward Said dies after a long battle with Leukemia