Orientalism
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About this Author
EDWARD W. SAID was born in 1935 in Jerusalem, raised in Jerusalem and Cairo, and educated in the United States, where he attended Princeton (B.A. 1957) and Harvard (M.A. 1960; Ph.D. 1964). In 1963, he began teaching at Columbia University, where he was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature. He died in 2003 in New York City.
He is the author of twenty-two books which have been translated into 35 languages, including Orientalism (1978); The Question of Palestine (1979); Covering Islam (1980); The World, the Text, and the Critic (1983); Culture and Imperialism (1993); Peace and Its Discontents: Essays on Palestine and the Middle East Peace Process (1996); and Out of Place: A Memoir (1999). Besides his academic work, he wrote a twice-monthly column for Al-Hayat and Al-Ahram; was a regular contributor to newspapers in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East; and was the music critic for The Nation.
Format: Trade paperback
Pages: 432
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 1979-10-12
Reviews
"Intellectual history on a high order ... and very exciting." --The New York Times
"Powerful and disturbing.... The theme is the way in which intellectual traditions are created and transmitted." --The New York Review of Books
"Stimulating, elegant yet pugnacious.... Said observes the West observing the Arabs, and he does not like what he finds." --The Observer
"An important book.... Never has there been as sustained and as persuasive a case against Orientalism as Said's." --Jerusalem Post
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