Edward Said Biography

Edward Said biography

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NAME: Edward Said
OCCUPATION: Academic, Activist, Academic Author
BIRTH DATE: November 01, 1935
DEATH DATE: September 25, 2003
EDUCATION: Princeton University, Harvard University
PLACE OF BIRTH: Jerusalem, Israel
PLACE OF DEATH: New York, New York
Full Name: Edward Wadie Said

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Although Edward Said was a literature professor at Columbia University, he also wrote about the way we discuss the Middle East in Orientalism.

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Edward Said was born in Palestine and moved to the U.S. in 1951. A Princeton and Harvard alum, he became a literature professor at Columbia University. In addition to writing about fiction, Said published many books on the Western cultural bias evident in the rhetoric surrounding the Middle East, most notably 1978's Orientalism. Said strongly supported an independent Palestinian state.