The Politics of Dispossession
The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination, 1969-1994
Author of the groundbreaking The Question of Palestine, Edward Said has been America's most outspoken advocate for Palestinian self-determination. As these collected essays amply prove, he is also our most intelligent and bracingly heretical writer on affairs involving not only Palestinians but also the Arab and Muslim worlds and their tortuous relations with the West.
"Solidly imbued with historical context and geopolitical conjecture...fresh, unpredictable, personal and incorruptible writing."—Boston Globe
In The Politics of Dispossession, Said traces his people's struggle for statehood through twenty-five years of exile, from the PLO's bloody 1970 exile from Jordan through the debacle of the Gulf War and the ambiguous 1994 peace accord with Israel.
As frank as he is about his personal involvement in that struggle, Said…
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May 30, 1995
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…
Beginnings
Edward W. Said
The World, the Text, and the Critic
Edward W. Said
Reflections on Exile and Other Essays
Edward W. Said
The Selected Works of Edward Said, 1966 - 2006
Edward Said; Moustafa Bayoumi and Andrew Rubin, eds.
On Late Style
Edward W. Said
From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map
Edward W. Said
Parallels and Paradoxes
Daniel Barenboim and Edward Said
I Saw Ramallah
Mourid Barghouti; Trans. by Ahdaf Soueif; Foreword by Edward W.Said
Reflections on Exile and Other Essays
Edward W. Said
Power, Politics, and Culture
Edward W. Said Edited by Gauri Viswanathan
The End of the Peace Process
Edward W. Said
Out of Place
Edward W. Said
Covering Islam
Edward W. Said
Representations of the Intellectual
Edward W. Said
The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World...
David Graeber; edited by Nika Dubrovsky; foreword by Rebecca Solnit
Memories of Distant Mountains
Orhan Pamuk
The Position of Spoons
Deborah Levy
Making Love with the Land
Joshua Whitehead
A Book of Days
Patti Smith
Nowhere, Exactly
M.G. Vassanji
Some of My Best Friends
Tajja Isen
Burning Questions
Margaret Atwood
Care Of
Ivan Coyote
Carving Space: The Indigenous Voices Awards Anthology
Various; Edited by Jordan Abel and Carleigh Baker
A Guest at the Feast
Colm Tóibín
A Private Spy
John le Carré; edited by Tim Cornwell
Languages of Truth
Salman Rushdie
Letters of Note: Grief
Compiled by Shaun Usher
Murakami T
Haruki Murakami
Recognizing the Stranger
Isabella Hammad
Spies of No Country
Matti Friedman
All We Leave Behind
Carol Off
A Disappearance in Damascus
Deborah Campbell
Fractured Lands
Scott Anderson
Pumpkinflowers
Matti Friedman
Don't Panic
Gwynne Dyer
Song of the Caged Bird
Marcello Di Cintio
Lawrence in Arabia
Scott Anderson
The Explorers
Martin Dugard
The Moral Lives of Israelis
David Berlin
The Balfour Declaration
Jonathan Schneer
The Anatomy of Israel's Survival
Hirsh Goodman
I Shall Not Hate
Izzeldin Abuelaish