EDWARD WADIE SAID ( إدوارد سعيد )

1. Jose Alberto recio Galán Sara Amaya Medrano Presentan EDWARD WADIE SAID(إدوارد سعيد) “One of the most influential scholars in the World."

2. Said was born in Jerusalem (then in the British Mandate of Palestine) to a Christian Arab family and raised in both Jerusalem and Cairo, Egypt.

4. Until age 12, he lived between Cairo and West Jerusalem where he attended the Anglican St. Georges Academy in 1947. His family became refugees in 1948 just prior to the capture of West Jerusalem by Zionist militias.

5. At age 14, Said entered Victoria College in Cairo. He studied in Princeton University and Harvard University. He joined the faculty of Columbia University in 1963 and served as Professor of English and Comparative Literature for several decades. Said also taught at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and Yale universities.

6. He spoke English and French fluently, excellent colloquial and very good standard Arabic, and was literate in Spanish, German, Italian and Latin. .

7. Twice received Columbia'sTrilling Award and the Wellek Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association. Said was bestowed numerous honorary doctorates from universities around the world.

9. Said is best known for describing and critiquing "Orientalism." In Orientalism (1978), Said decried the "subtle and persistent Eurocentric prejudice against Arabo-Islamic peoples and their culture"

10. As a Palestinian activist, Said promoted the cause of Palestinians in Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Writing in 1980, Said anticipated an eventual policy of military aggression by the United States toward the Middle East, a prediction some observers find evident in the actions of the United States after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks

11. From 1977 until 1991, Said was an independent member of the Palestinian National Council who tended to stay out of factional struggles. He supported the two-state solution and voted for it in Algiers in 1988.

12. In 2002, he got The Awards “Principe de Asturias” with Daniel Baremboim.

13. In June 2002, Said, along with Haidar Abdel-Shafi, Ibrahim Dakak, and Mustafa Barghouti, helped establish the Palestinian National Initiative.

15. Said's books on the issue of Israel and Palestine include; The Question of Palestine (1979), The Politics of Dispossession (1994) The End Of The Peace Process (2000).

16. EDWARD WADIE SAID. “OUT OF PLACE.”

17. Said was also a prolific journalist and his writing regularly appeared in: *The Nation *The Guardian *The London Review of Books *Le Monde Diplomatique, *Counterpunch *Al Ashram *The pan-Arab daily al-Hayat.

18. A skilled concert pianist, Said also contributed music criticism to The Nation for many years. In 1999, he jointly founded the West-East Divan Orchestra with the Argentine-Israeli conductor and close friend Daniel Barenboim.

20. Edward Said died at the age of 67 in New York after a long battle with chronic myelogenous leukemia.

21. His publications •After the Last Sky (1986) •Beginnings (1975) •Blaming the Victims (1988) [contributor and co-editor with Christopher Hitchens] •CIA et Jihad, 1950-2001: Contre l'URSS, une désastreuse alliance (2002), with John K. Cooley •Covering Islam (1981) •Criticism in Society •Culture and Imperialism (1993) •The End Of The Peace Process (2000) •Humanism and Democratic Criticism (2005) •Edward Said: A Critical Reader

22. •Freud and the Non-European •From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map (Collection of Essays) (2003) •Jewish Religion, Jewish History (Introduction) •Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography (1966) •Literature and Society (1980)

25. Daniel Barenboim; Edward SaidConcordia 2002, músicos “Quienes, con independencia de su destacada proyección artística e intelectual, realizan una generosa y encomiable tarea a favor de la convivencia y de la paz, simbolizada en la colaboración de jóvenes músicos que, superando antagonismos históricos, fomenta el diálogo y la reflexión". Acta del Jurado del Premio Príncipe de Asturias de la Concordia 2002

27. “Quién sabe hasta dónde llegaremos y a quiénes haremos cambiar de opinión. La belleza de esta pregunta es que no se puede ni responder ni desestimar fácilmente. Su reconocimiento de nuestros esfuerzos, no obstante, nos ayuda a dar un gran paso hacia adelante.” Edward Said, 2002 The Awards Príncipe De Asturias. (Palabras en Español Pronunciadas en el discurso del galardón.)

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