Edward W. Said

Edward W. Said (1935-2003) was a distinguished professor of humanities at Columbia University, where he taught English and comparative literature after 1963. Born in Jerusalem in 1935, he studied in Cairo, Massachusetts, and at Princeton and Harvard Universities. He served as a visiting professor of comparative literature at Harvard, a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies, and a visiting professor of Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. Said was also the editor of the journal "Arab Studies Quarterly," a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, the Academy of Literary Studies, and the Pen Club. He was honored with the Bowdoin and Lionel Trilling awards. His seminal works include the cultural studies "Orientalism" and "Culture and Imperialism" (both published by Nefeli Editions), where the thinker analyzes the illusory myths cultivated by colonizers about the colonized and the roots of stereotypes about the East perpetuated in the West. Other works include "Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography," "Beginnings," "The Question of Palestine," "Literature and Society," "Representations of the Intellectual" ("Intellectuals and Power," Greek edition Scripta, 1999), "The World, the Text, the Critic" ("The World, the Text, and the Critic," Greek edition Scripta, 2004), "After the Last Sky," "Blaming the Victims," "Musical Elaborations," his autobiography "Out of Place: A Memoir" ("Without a Homeland," Greek edition Paratiritis, 2003), and his essays on exile "Reflections on Exile and Other Essays" ("Reflections on Exile and Other Essays on Literary and Cultural Theory," Greek edition Scripta, 2006).