Edward Saïd

Edward Wadie Saïd (November 1st, 1935, Jerusalem - September 25th, 2003, New York; rear RTL إدواردسعيد) is a literary theorist, a critic and an intellectual Palestinian of American citizenship.

He taught of 1963 until his death in 2003 the English Littérature and the Littérature compared with the Université Columbia of New York, and is the author of many books of literary and musical criticism, like on the Israeli-Arab Conflit.

Its most famous work is the Orientalism , published in 1978, and translated into French with the Editions of the Threshold in 1980. The work was translated into 36 languages and is regarded as the text founder of the studies postcoloniales.

Biography

Saïd was born with Jerusalem (in this time, in the Palestine agent) on November 1st 1935. His/her father was a rich businessman Palestinian Christian and an American citizen while his/her mother was born with Nazareth in a Christian and Palestinian Lebanese family. The historian and writer Rosemarie Said Zahlan were his/her sister. According to the autobiography of Saïd, he lived between Cairo and Jerusalem up to 12 years. In 1947, it became student of St George Academy (a school Anglican) when it was with Jerusalem. According to Saïd, its widened family became the refugees in 1948 during the Israeli-Arab Guerre of 1948 because the house of family was in a rich district of Talbiya in the Western part of Jerusalem which annexed by Israel. In 1998, Saïd wrote:

I was born in Jerusalem and had spent most off my formative years there and, after 1948, when my entire family became refugees, in Egypt. All my early education had, however, been in elite colonial schools, public English schools designed by the British to bring up has off generation Arabs with natural ties to Britain. The last one I went to before I left the Middle East to go to the United States was Victoria College in Cairo, has school in effect created to educate those ruling-class Arabs and Levantines who were going to take over after the British left. My contemporaries and classmates included King Hussein off Jordan, several Jordanian, Egyptian, Syrian and Saudi servant boys who were to become ministers, premium ministers and leading businessmen, ace well ace such glamorous figures ace Michel Shalhoub, head prefect off the school and chief tormentor when I was have relatively junior servant boy, whom everyone has seen one screen ace Omar Sharif.

In September 1951, when it was 15 years old, his/her parents (which leave immediately to the Middle East) “deposited it” in Mount Hermon School, a preparatory college private in Massachusetts, where it evokes one year miserable in which it does not feel in its place

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