Edward-said Quotes

Not long ago, having expressed some disagreements in print with an old comrade of long standing, I w...

In the same essay, Said (who is reviewing Peter Stansky and William Abrams, co-authors obsessed with...

Some lurid things have been said about me—that I am a racist, a hopeless alcoholic, a closet homosex...

Arab nationalism in its traditional form was the way in which secular Arab Christians like Edward ha...

Inevitably came the time when he angrily repudiated his former paladin Yasser Arafat. In fact, he de...

It was at a conference in Cyprus in 1976, where the theme was the rights of small nations, that I fi...

In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian pligh...

Though he never actually joined it, he was close to some civilian elements of the Democratic Front f...

Edward had a personal horror of violence and never endorsed or excused it, though in a documentary h...

There came an awful day when I picked up the phone and knew at once, as one does with some old frien...

I take criticism so seriously as to believe that, even in the midst of a battle in which one is unmi...