EDWARD SAID DEAD
AP reports,
Edward Said, a Columbia University professor, literary critic and a leading advocate in the United States of the Palestinian cause, has died, his editor said Thursday. He was 67.
Said died Wednesday night at a New York hospital, said editor Shelley Wanger at Knopf publishers. He had suffered from leukemia at least since the early 1990s.
I’ve never been a fan of his work but he was a major figure in Middle Eastern studies. He represented most of what I’ve long thought wrong with that discipline: His ideology always trumped his scholarship.
(Hat tip: Glenn Reynolds)
Said Dead at 67
Edward Said, author of Orientalism, is dead. As James Joyner writes, “[Said] represented most of what I’ve long thought wrong
Right Said Dead
James Joyner reports that Edward Said, Palestinian apologist cum Middle Eastern Studies scholar, has passed away at the age of 67. Reports that Said was…
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