Twenty years after the death of Edward W. Said, a Columbia professor, renowned intellectual, and outspoken advocate of Palestine,reporter Lily Glaser seeks to understand his life, legacy, and impact ...

Edward Said may be the world’s most famous English professor, and its most famous Palestinian after Yasir Arafat. In the academy, he is best known for his influential critique of “Orientalism,” that ...

Exile has been a harsh reality for many intellectuals, writes Alon Confino, a professor of modern German and European history at the University of Virginia. In an issue devoted to “meditations on ...

Edward Said: “The Idea of Palestine Hounds Zionists” In September of 1982, Edward Said analyzed the Zionist invasion of Lebanon, calling for justice for Palestinians. Days later, the right wing ...

The serenity of Edward Said’s household routine in the last 20 years of his life offered a conspicuous contrast to the nonstop turbulence of his public persona. He lived on Manhattan’s Riverside Drive ...

On Palestine and the geography of vanishing. This piece is part of A Day for Gaza, an initiative in which The Nation has turned over its website exclusively to voices from the Gaza Strip. You can find ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Edward Said, who died 17 years ago today, has been called many things.

Charles Gaines, "Faces 1: Identity Politics, #10, Edward Said" (2018) on view at the ICA Miami on March 7 (photo used with permission) The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA) quietly removed a ...

Edward Said, whose advocacy of the Palestinian cause made him among the most prominent and controversial figures in American intellectual life, died early Wednesday evening, following a long struggle ...

The life of our colleague Edward Said, who died on September 25, brings to mind the words of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: “It is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his ...

This is a tribute piece to Edward Said considering the recent 15th anniversary of his passing. I first discovered Edward Said, from memory, in my early 20s (I’m 42 now). While reading for my Masters, ...

On February 2, 1977, Palestinian poet Rashid Hussein died in his New York apartment. Hussein had been born forty-one years earlier in Musmus, a town not far from Nazareth. Politics for Hussein, Edward ...