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Edward Said

Also known as Edward Wadie Said

Palestinian-American professor (1935–2003)

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Edward Said was a Palestinian-American scholar and literary critic who became one of the most influential intellectuals of the late 20th century. He is best known for his groundbreaking work on how Western culture has historically misrepresented and dominated the East, a concept that fundamentally changed how scholars understand the relationship between power, knowledge, and culture.

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Born: 1935
Died: 2003
Works: 152

Top works

al-Naqd wa-al-mujtamaʻ
The letters of Joseph Conrad
Ḥarb al-ʻālamayn al-ūlá
La Posmodernidad
Orientalism

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Film & TV

Acting · Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine

Known for

Echoing Voices: From the Words of Edward W. Said — Self2025
The man who predicted the future of the Arabs — himself2019
Edward Said: Out of Place — Self2018
Ethos — Self2011
Out of Place: Memories of Edward Said — Self2006
Knowledge Is the Beginning — Self2005
Edward Said: The Last Interview2004
Selves and Others: A Portrait of Edward Said2004
Edward Said On Orientalism: "The Orient" Represented in Mass Media1998
On 'Orientalism' — Self1998

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Germany

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Listeners: 351
Total plays: 2,540

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Edward Wadie Said (Arabic: إدوارد وديع سعيد, transliteration: Edward Wādi Sa‘id) (1 November 1935 – 25 September 2003) was a Palestinian-American literary theorist and outspoken Palestinian activist. He was Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and is regarded as a founding figure in post-colonial theory. Said is best known for describing and critiquing "Orientalism", which he perceived as a constellation of false assumptions underlying Western attitudes toward the East. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Edward+Said">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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5 total works indexed

Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines
· 1953 · cited 29,722x
Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being.
· 2000 · cited 27,650x
Adsorption of Gases in Multimolecular Layers
· 1938 · cited 24,321x
The "What" and "Why" of Goal Pursuits: Human Needs and the Self-Determination of Behavior
· 2000 · cited 23,715x
THE USE OF LEAD CITRATE AT HIGH pH AS AN ELECTRON-OPAQUE STAIN IN ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
· 1963 · cited 18,946x

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Quotes

“When one learns something one first performs an act of will, because only by willing to learn can one learn.”
“[An elaborated culture has a] density, complexity, and historical-semantic value that is so strong as to make politics possible... Gramsci's insight is to have recognised that subordination, fracturing, diffusion, reproducing, as much as producing, creating, forcing, guiding, are necessary aspects of elaboration.”
“The central fact for me is, I think, that the [role of the] intellectual ... cannot be played without a sense of being someone whose place it is publicly to raise embarrassing questions, to confront orthodoxy and dogma (rather than to produce them), to be someone who cannot easily be co-opted by governments or corporations, and whose raison d'être is to represent all those people and issues that are routinely forgotten or swept under the rug.”
“Where cruelty and injustice are concerned, hopelessness is submission, which I believe is immoral.”
“Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also being studied.”
“It isn't at all a matter of being optimistic, but rather of continuing to have faith in the ongoing and literally unending process of emancipation and enlightenment that, in my opinion, frames and gives direction to the intellectual vocation.”

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Commons category: Edward Said
date of birth: 1935-11-01
date of death: 2003-09-24
name in native language: Edward Wadie Said

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Edward Wadie Said (1 November 1935 – 24 September 2003) was a Palestinian and American academic, literary critic, and political activist. As a professor of literature at Columbia University, he was among the founders of post-colonial studies. As a cultural critic, Said is best known for his book Orientalism (1978), a foundational text which critiques the cultural representations that are the bases of Orientalism—how the Western world perceives the Orient. His model of textual analysis transformed the academic discourse of researchers in literary theory, literary criticism, and Middle Eastern studies.

Born in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine, in 1935, Said was a United States citizen by way of his father, who had served in the United States Army during World War I. After the 1948 Palestine war, he relocated the family to Egypt, where they had previously lived, and then to the United States. Said enrolled at the secondary school Victoria College while in Egypt and Northfield Mount Hermon School after arriving in the United States. He graduated from Princeton University in 1957 and received a doctorate in English literature from Harvard University in 1964. His principal influences were Antonio Gramsci, Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, Michel Foucault, and Theodor W. Adorno.