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As I note in the Preface of my book, Stuart Schaar suggested I write a book about Edward Said similar to the book he had written about our mutual friend, the late Eqbal Ahmad. After this, I experimented with the idea through talks delivered at various universit..

The Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI) brings you this bouquet of pieces, including peer-reviewed articles, on, or by, Edward Said. These items in our database were published in peer-reviewed academic journals for the years 1979-2021. For more bouquets, visit www.mespi.org.

As we approach the realm of the absurd regarding the professionalism and veracity of State Department Spokespersons’ responses on Gaza developments, Said Arikat addresses his recent experience during foreign policy briefings at th..

In my book, I discuss how many revolutionary actors brought ideas such as El Naddaha (النداهة or “the caller”), a myth or a legend particularly prominent in Egypt’s countryside about a female spirit that calls men to the Nile, leading to t..

In May 2001, at the height of the Al-Aqsa Intifada and several months after Ariel Sharon assumed office in Israel and George W. Bush was installed in the United States, Edward W. Said came to Palestine to pay his respects to his close friend and associate, the Palestinian academic and activist I..

This interview with Edward W. Said was conducted by Jadaliyya Co-Editor Mouin Rabbani in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in September 1994, one year after Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization signed the Oslo Accord. Said was among the first to publicly condemn the agreement, and..

On Monday, 18 September Jadaliyya co-editor Mouin Rabbani spoke with Adel Iskandar about Edward W. Said, who passed away twenty years ago this month. This episode of Connections examines Said’s intellectual and political acco..

In his poem “In Memory of W. B. Yeats,” W. H. Auden memorably observes the moment of Yeats’ death: “The current of his feeling failed; he became his admirers.” It’s an ambiguous line, but it captures the ways that the death of a writer separates them from their work, which—one hopes—continues it..

Edward W. Said played a unique role in the contemporary Palestinian national movement. It is difficult to imagine it being reproduced by another individual Palestinian, a judgement that reflects both Said’s extraordinary qualities and the fundamental transformation of the environment in which he..

NEWTON Bouquet – The life, work, and legacy of Edward Said (25 September)

Edward W. Said was a pre-eminent scholar, public intellectual, and globally acclaimed advo..

Join us on Monday, 18 September for a discussion about Edward W. Said, who passed away twenty years ago this month, with Jadaliyya co-editor Mouin Rabbani and Adel Iskandar. This episode of Connections will examine Said..

This book is a delta of sorts where different stories flow together. They all converge on the nineteenth-century history of the construction of the Suez Canal as it was witnessed mainly by migrant workers in the project’s first and northernmost worksite-turned-..

The following letter was issued by the Middle East Studies Association on 10 February 2022 in response to the Egyptian government's detention of translators Kholoud Said and Marwa Arafa.

In 2001, a colleague at the American University in Cairo (AUC) asked me if I would be interested in taking over her position as a research assistant to an exceptional sociologist. At the time, I was a student in the Master’s Program in Sociology-Anthropology and was nervous about stepping into t..

On a small terrace in Marseille, I met Safia Delta for the first time in working to complete my project Dry*. I asked to meet her because I consider her to be like me—a person containing an identity that is "multiple," as the Lebanese author Amin Maalouf describes it. Safia is from two ..

Reflective of Lebanon’s shortage of foreign capital, the Lebanese government recently announced it will stop payment on all future maturing eurobonds. In parallel, government and financial circles have increasingly discussed the potential need for a package by the International Monetary Fund (IM..

An overview of the modern urban history of Saida, Lebanon, reveals that the biggest changes to the city occur during times of crisis. During such critical times, incoming capital and aid facilitates the implementation of major infrastructural projects and urban plans. Such urban projects create ..

Something big—that we do not yet fully understand—is happening in the halls of power. Maybe we know some of it, and will get to know more with time. Perhaps we will not learn more at any time in the near future. What we do know is that the build-up to