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Ever since the appearance of his groundbreaking The Question of Palestine, Edward Said has been America's most outspoken advocate for Palestinian self-determination. As these collected essays amply prove, he is also our most intelligent and bracingly heretical writer on affairs involving not only Palestinians but also the Arab and Muslim worlds and their tortuous relations with the West. In The Politics of Dispossession Said traces his people'...

In these impassioned and inspiring essays, based on his 1993 Reith Lectures, Edward Said explores what it means to be an intellectual today. Are intellectuals merely the servants of special interests or do they have a larger responsibility? In these wide-ranging essays, one of our most brilliant and fiercely independent public thinkers addresses this question with extraordinary eloquence. Said sees the the intellectual as an exile and amateur ...

When it was first published in this country in 1977, this original and deeply provocative book made Palestine the subject of a serious debate--one that is now more critical than ever.

A political and personal history of the aclaimed writer, academic and critic, which reveals the influences which have informed ground-breaking works such as "Orientalism" and "Culture & Imperialism". "A work of art, one of the noblest biographies of our time" "Irish Times".

These free-wheeling, often exhilarating dialogues--which grew out of the acclaimed Carnegie Hall Talks--are an exchange between two of the most prominent figures in contemporary culture: Daniel Barenboim, internationally renowned conductor and pianist, and Edward W. Said, eminent literary critic and impassioned commentator on the Middle East. Barenboim is an Argentinian-Israeli and Said a Palestinian-American, they are also close friends. As t...

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Edward Said, the renowned literary and cultural critic and passionately engaged intellectual, is one of our era's most formidable, provocative, and important thinkers. For more than three decades his books, which include Culture and Imperialism, Peace and Its Discontents, and the seminal study Orientalism, have influenced not only our worldview but the very terms of public discourse.The Edward Said Reader includes key sections from all of Said...

Edward W. Said resta tra gli intellettuali più stimati del nostro tempo, per l'importanza dei suoi studi critici ma anche per la coraggiosa militanza in difesa dei diritti umani. Nasce a Gerusalemme nel 1935, erede di una ricca famiglia palestinese cristiana, e conduce i suoi primi studi nel prestigioso Victoria College del Cairo. Il futuro re di Giordania Hussein e Omar Sharif sono tra i suoi compagni. Ma il giovane Edward rifiuta il modello ...

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Based on his 1993 Reith Lectures, Said's essays explore what it means to be an intellectual today. He argues that the intellectual's role is to represent a message or view not only to, but for, a public, and to do so as an outsider - someone who cannot be co-opted by a government or corporation.

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Subtitled )How The Media And The Experts Determine How We See The Rest Of The World(. Said argues the media have produced a misleading and simplified image of Muslims and Islam following the crisis in the Middle East, based on ignorance, inaccuracy and prejudice. From the author of )Culture And Imperialism.(

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In his last collection of essays, one of the most highly regarded cultural critics of our time examines works produced by Strauss, Beethoven, Thomas Mann, Samuel Beckett, and other artists at the end of their lives, and explains what the works say about the evolution of these artists.

W tej niezwyklej i poruszajacej ksiazce autor wraz z fotografikiem Jeanem Mohrem staraja sie ustalic, co dzisiaj znaczy byc Palestynczykiem. Nie ma dnia bez wzmianek o Palestynczykach. Jednak przy wszystkim, co o nich pisano, pozostaja w rzeczywistosci nieznani. Przedstawiani albo jako okrutni terrorysci, albo wzbudzajacy litosc uchodzcy, Palestynczycy stali sie wiezniami tych obrazow. Autor rejestruje efekty kolejnych wysiedlen, jakich Palest...

In deze vrijmoedige autobiografie schetst de in Jeruzalem geboren Edward Said (1935-2003) een beeld van zijn jeugd, die hij grotendeels doorbracht in Cairo en Libanon. Ontheemd is een emotionele terugblik, waarin de complexe relatie tussen de oosterse en westerse wereld op kritische wijze wordt beschreven. Het boek onthult de confronterende identiteitsworsteling van de jonge Said, hij richt de aandacht op de cultuurproblematiek waarmee hij zic...

Encuadernación: cartoné Colección: Arena abiertaLa victoria de Sharon en las elecciones israelíes de febrero de 2001 y los atentados del 11 de septiembre del mismo año han supuesto el fin del proceso de paz que se había iniciado en Oslo. Se cierra una etapa en el conflicto de Oriente Próximo y se abre una nueva, caracterizada por la incertidumbre, la dificultad para encontrar bases mínimas de acuerdo y la agudización de los antagonismos. Desde...

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