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I have been unable to live an uncommitted or suspended life. I have not hesitated to declare my affiliation with an extremely unpopular cause.

Edward Said

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Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric.

Edward Said

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Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics.

Edward Said

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Tags in Palestinian

Birth:	1st November, 1935
Death:	25th September, 2003
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Critic, Professor

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Edward Wadie Said was born in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine. He was a Palestine-born American author, critic, professor, and comparative literature at Columbia University. As a cultural critic, Said is known for the book Orientalism, a critical analysis of the culturally inaccurate representations that are the bases of Orientalism — the Western study of the Eastern world that presents how Westerners perceive and represent Orientals.

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1930 - Dick Sargent
1942 - Alan Price
1946 - Tim Curry
1953 - Ruby Wax
1952 - Alexis Arguello

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