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Palestinian National Council. Retrieved 26 April Alma Luz Villanueva Askia M. Edward Wadie Said [ a ] 1 November — 24 September was a Palestinian-American academic, literary critic, and political activist. In the revised edition of Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World , Said criticized the Orientalist bias of the Western news media's reportage about the Middle East and Islam, especially the tendency to editorialize "speculations about the latest conspiracy to blow up buildings, sabotage commercial airliners, and poison water supplies.

If his words still powerfully resonate today, it is due to the evils he helped expose are as powerful as ever. He promoted after four years and became an assistant professor of English and comparative literature in His mother, Hilda Said, was an Arab Christian. New Left Review.

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Said argued that even the most compassionate and objective of Western scholars are—by their mere status as Westerners—biased in favor of the West, and that, therefore, all Western scholarship of the East is fundamentally flawed. Presiding over our efforts, students and teachers alike, has been the spirit of music, which I would want to insist, is neither a sentimental panacea nor a facile solution for every problem, but rather a practical utopia whose presence and practice in our driven world is sorely needed, and in all sorts of ways, intensely instructive.

That is, allowing for self-representation of authors belonging to the Orient rather than depending on second hand representation. Al Jazeera. Western writings are about creating "difference" between West and East, a difference which is attributed to the existence of certain immutable "essences" in the Oriental make-up. Western Art, Orientalism continues, has misrepresented the Orient with stereotypes since Antiquity , as in the tragedy The Persians BCE , by Aeschylus , where the Greek protagonist falls because he misperceived the true nature of The Orient.

Oxford: Continuum. Later on, from , he attended Harvard University and got his M. Some of his famous works about the Middle East include:. Gross; Rolf J. As a public intellectual, Said was a member of the Palestinian National Council supporting a two-state solution that incorporated the Palestinian right of return , before resigning in due to his criticism of the Oslo Accords.

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And they matter more with each passing day. That is, the Orient was fundamentally different to the West and, by implication, inferior. Retrieved 10 September The history of earlier contributions by wikipedians is accessible to researchers here:.