By: Edward Said

Thoughts about America

Thoughts about America

A large number of Arab and Muslim Americans now feel that he or she belongs to the enemy camp .

Edward Said on United States Of America ·

Edward Said, Ph.D., was a critically acclaimed American writer and professor of Palestinian origin. He was born on November 1, 1935 and died on September 25, 2003. He had a Palestinian Protestant mother and a wealthy Palestinian-American Catholic father. He grew up in a Jerusalem that was under British mandate. The Palestinian-American intellectual to be would spend his life investigating the in the end imaginary line that divides the East and the West.

Edward Said would teach English literature and comparative literature at Columbia University in New York City from 1963 until his death in 2003. He would be the author of numerous books of literary criticism, music analysis and most notably on the Arab-Israeli conflict. The famous British Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk (1946 - ) would say of Edward Saïd that he was the “most powerful voice” for Palestinians....