Edward Said
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Demographics
Gender Male
Birth Name Edward Wadie Said [إدوارد وديع سعيد]
Birthplace Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine
Birth Date November 1, 1935
Ethnicity West Asian
Overview Levantine Christian Arab
Nationality Palestinian, American
Career Academic, literary critic, political activist
Color Season Dark Autumn
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From a family of Palestinian Christians
Raised Protestant but then became an agnostic in his later years
Professor of literature at Columbia University, he was among the founders of post-colonial studies
Best known for his book Orientalism (1978), a foundational text which critiques the cultural representations that are the bases of Orientalism—how the Western world perceives the Orient
His model of textual analysis transformed the academic discourse of researchers in literary theory, literary criticism, and Middle Eastern studies
As a public intellectual, he was a member of the Palestinian National Council supporting a two-state solution that incorporated the Palestinian right of return, before resigning in 1993 due to his criticism of the Oslo Accords
Advocated for the establishment of a Palestinian state to ensure political and humanitarian equality in the Israeli-occupied territories, where Palestinians have witnessed the increased expansion of Israeli settlements
However, in 1999, he argued that sustainable peace was only possible with one Israeli–Palestinian state
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