EDWARD WADIE SAID

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EDWARD WADIE SAID (?????? ????)
Jose Alberto recio Galán
Sara Amaya Medrano
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• One of the most influential scholars in the
  World."

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Said was born in Jerusalem (then in the
British Mandate of Palestine) to a Christian
Arab family and raised in both Jerusalem and
Cairo, Egypt.
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Until age 12, he lived between Cairo and West
Jerusalem where he attended the Anglican St.
Georges Academy in 1947. His family became
refugees in 1948 just prior to the capture of
West Jerusalem by Zionist militias.
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At age 14, Said entered Victoria College in
Cairo. He studied in Princeton University and
Harvard University. He joined the faculty of
Columbia University in 1963 and served as
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
for several decades. Said also taught at
Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and Yale universities.
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He spoke English and French fluently, excellent
colloquial and very good standard Arabic, and
was literate in Spanish, German, Italian and
Latin.
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Twice received Columbia's Trilling Award and the
Wellek Prize of the American Comparative
Literature Association.
Said was bestowed numerous honorary doctorates
from universities around the world.
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Said is best known for describing and critiquing
"Orientalism."
In Orientalism (1978), Said decried the "subtle
and persistent Eurocentric prejudice against
Arabo-Islamic peoples and their culture"
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As a Palestinian activist, Said promoted the
cause of Palestinians in Israel, the West Bank
and the Gaza Strip.
Writing in 1980, Said anticipated an eventual
policy of military aggression by the United
States toward the Middle East, a prediction some
observers find evident in the actions of the
United States after the September 11, 2001
terrorist attacks
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From 1977 until 1991, Said was an independent
member of the Palestinian National Council who
tended to stay out of factional struggles.
He supported the two-state solution and voted for
it in Algiers in 1988.
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In 2002, he got The Awards Principe de Asturias
with Daniel Baremboim.
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In June 2002, Said, along with Haidar
Abdel-Shafi, Ibrahim Dakak, and Mustafa
Barghouti, helped establish the Palestinian
National Initiative.
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Said's books on the issue of Israel and Palestine
include
The Question of Palestine (1979), The Politics
of Dispossession (1994) The End Of The Peace
Process (2000).
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Said was also a prolific journalist and his
writing regularly appeared in The Nation The
Guardian The London Review of Books Le Monde
Diplomatique, Counterpunch Al Ashram The
pan-Arab daily al-Hayat.
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A skilled concert pianist, Said also contributed
music criticism to The Nation for many years.
In 1999, he jointly founded the West-East Divan
Orchestra with the Argentine-Israeli conductor
and close friend Daniel Barenboim.
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Edward Said died at the age of 67 in New York
after a long battle with chronic myelogenous
leukemia.
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His publications
After the Last Sky (1986) Beginnings (1975)
Blaming the Victims (1988) contributor and
co-editor with Christopher Hitchens CIA et
Jihad, 1950-2001 Contre l'URSS, une désastreuse
alliance (2002), with John K. Cooley
Covering Islam (1981) Criticism in Society
Culture and Imperialism (1993) The End Of The
Peace Process (2000) Humanism and Democratic
Criticism (2005) Edward Said A Critical Reader
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Freud and the Non-European From Oslo to Iraq
and the Road Map (Collection of Essays) (2003)
Jewish Religion, Jewish History (Introduction)
Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography
(1966) Literature and Society (1980)
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                    Daniel
Barenboim Edward Said Concordia 2002,
músicos Quienes,
con independencia de su destacada proyección
artística e intelectual, realizan una generosa y
encomiable tarea a favor de la convivencia y de
la paz, simbolizada en la colaboración de jóvenes
músicos que, superando antagonismos históricos,
fomenta el diálogo y la reflexión". Acta del
Jurado del Premio Príncipe de Asturias de la
Concordia 2002
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Quién sabe hasta dónde llegaremos y a quiénes
haremos cambiar de opinión. La belleza de esta
pregunta es que no se puede ni responder ni
desestimar fácilmente. Su reconocimiento de
nuestros esfuerzos, no obstante, nos ayuda a dar
un gran paso hacia adelante. Edward Said, 2002
The Awards Príncipe De Asturias. (Palabras en
Español Pronunciadas en el discurso del
galardón.)
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