In the nearly 30 years since Edward Said published the hugely influential Orientalism, his indictment of racism and imperialism in Western scholarship on the Orient has had its share of plaudits and ...

The battle royale between Edward W. Said and Bernard Lewis radiates a timeless quality, especially given how events have turned out in the Near East and how globalization has altered journalism and ...

Edward Said's book Orientalism has been profoundly influential in a diverse range of disciplines since its publication in 1978. In this engaging and lavishly illustrated interview he talks about the ...

For the last thirty years, Edward W. Said’s book “Orientalism” has dominated—suffocated would be the less polite word—scholarship on the Arab world. According to his devotees, Said “proved” that the ...

Frustrated by the popular images of "the Orient," which often resemble scenes from "Arabian Nights," the artists featured in "Empire and Its Discontents" seek to dispel that notion with resounding ...

I traveled to Israel and the Occupied Territories in the early 2000s with the progressive group Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace. We made an effort to gain insight into most of the players in the ...

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, ...

In his obituary for Edward Said in the British newspaper The Independent, Gabriel Piterberg made wonderful use of the Palestinian-American's interest in Hannah Arendt's idea of the "conscious pariah." ...

The region has its share of dictatorships and protesters, but there's something ironic about the too-eager comparisons to the Middle East Kazakh riot police stand guard during a rally held by ...

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 ...

Iran is a hot commodity. Whether it is being sold as a misunderstood land of mystery, or eyed as a potential business or investment opportunity, it is difficult to find a narrative which does not ...

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 ...