Edward Said: 33 books
The End of the Peace Process
Oslo and After
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Soon after the Oslo accords were signed in September 1993 by Israel and Palestinian Liberation Organization, Edward Said predicted that they could not lead to real peace. In these essays, most written for Arab and European newspapers, Said uncovers the political mechanism that advertises...
by Edward W. Said
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
In these six essays--delivered on the BBC as the prestigious Reith Lectures--Edward Said addresses the ways in which the intellectual can best serve society in the light of a heavily compromised media and of special interest groups who are protected at the cost of larger community concerns. Said suggests...
by Edward W. Said
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Edward Said has long been considered one of the world’s most compelling public intellectuals, taking on a remarkable array of topics with his many publications. But no single book has encompassed the vast scope of his stimulating erudition quite like Power, Politics, and Culture, a collection of...
Out of Place
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
From one of the most important intellectuals of our time comes an extraordinary story of exile and a celebration of an irrecoverable past. A fatal medical diagnosis in 1991 convinced Edward Said that he should leave a record of where he was born and spent his childhood, and so with this memoir he...
The Politics of Dispossession
The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination, 1969-1994
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Ever since the appearance of his 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...
Cubriendo el islam
Cómo los medios de comunicación y los expertos determinan nuestra visión del resto del mundo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Una obra más necesaria que nunca para reconsiderar la visión que recibimos del islam.
Desde la crisis de los rehenes en Irán hasta la guerra del Golfo y el primer atentado con bomba en el World Trade Center, la mayoría de los medios de comunicación estadounidenses han retratado el islam...
by Edward W. Said
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East has become a modern classic.
In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism" to...
Parallels and Paradoxes
Explorations in Music and Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
These free-wheeling, often exhilarating dialogues—which grew out of the acclaimed Carnegie Hall Talks—are an exchange between two of the most prominent figures in contemporary culture: Daniel Barenboim, internationally renowned conductor and pianist, and Edward W. Said, eminent literary critic...
by Edward W. Said
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In his final book, completed just before his death, Edward W. Said offers impassioned pleas for the beleaguered Palestinian cause from one of its most eloquent spokesmen. These essays, which originally appeared in Cairo’s Al-Ahram Weekly, London’s Al-Hayat, and the London Review of Books, take...
by Edward W. Said
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Una historia extraordinaria sobre el exilio narrada por uno de los intelectuales más importantes de nuestro tiempo.
En Fuera de lugar Edward W. Said ofrece un fascinante relato del desarrollo vital de un crítico y pensador a caballo entre Oriente y Occidente. Fuera de lugar no es solamente...
Covering Islam
How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
In this classic work, now updated, the author of Culture and Imperialism reveals the hidden agendas and distortions of fact that underlie even the most "objective" coverage of the Islamic world.
From the Iranian hostage crisis through the Gulf War and the bombing of the World Trade...
by Edward W. Said
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
A landmark work from the author of Orientalism that explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it.
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as the Western powers built empires that stretched from...
by Edward W. Said
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
This original and deeply provocative book was the first to make Palestine the subject of a serious debate--one that remains as critical as ever. With the rigorous scholarship he brought to his influential Orientalism and an exile's passion (he is Palestinian by birth), Edward W. Said traces the fatal...
Sobre el estilo tardío
Música y literatura a contracorriente
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 22, 2011
¿Cómo influye el ocaso vital en la obra de un artista?
La elegiaca obra póstuma del maestro de los estudios culturales.
La crítica suele dedicar mayor atención a la madurez de los creadores, cuando se da por supuesto que florecen sus obras maestras, pero en este extraordinario ensayo...