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ORIENTALISM BY Edward W. Said

About the Book

Edward W. Said is University Professor at Columbia University, where he has taught English and Comparative Literature since 1963. He was born in Jerusalem in 1935 and educated at Victoria College, Cairo, Mount Hermon School, Massachusetts, and at Princeton and Harvard universities.

In 1974 he was Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard, in 1975—6 Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Science at Stanford, and in 1979 Visiting Professor of Humanities at Johns Hopkins University.

He was editor of the Arab Studies Quarterly, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, New York, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the executive board of PEN.

He has received Harvard University’s Bowdoin Prize and the Lionel Trilling Award in 1976 and in 1994. His books include Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography, Beginnings. Intention and Method; The Question of Palestine; Literature and Society, The World, The Text and The Critic; Covering Islam; After the Last. Sky; Blaming the Victims; Musical Elaborations; Culture and Imperialism; and Representations of the Intellectual.