Edward W. Said

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 the centuries-long period during which Europe dominated the Middle and Near East and, from its position of power, defined "the orient" simply as "other than" the occident. This entrenched view continues to dominate western ideas and, because it does not allow the East to represent itself, prevents true understanding. Essential, and still eye-opening, Orientalism remains one of the most important books written about our divided world. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Orientalism

Joe Sacco

Uses a comic book format to shed light on the complex and emotionally-charged situation of Palestinian Arabs, exploring the lives of Israeli soldiers, Palestinian refugees, and children in the Occupied Territories.

Palestine

Still a basic and indespensible account of the Palestinian question, updated to include the most recent developments in the Middle East- from the intifada to the Gulf war to the historic peace conference in Madrid.

The Question of Palestine

Edward Said was born in Jerusalem, and brought up in Cairo, spending every summer in the Lebanese mountain village of Dhour el Shweir, until he was "banished" to America in 1951. This work is a mixture of emotional archaeology and memory, exploring an essentially irrecoverable past. As ill health sets him thinking about endings, Edward Said returns to his beginnings in this personal memoir.

A Memoir

Out of Place

Edward William Said

Evaluates the American media's coverage of news stories concerning Islam and shows how misconceptions about the Middle East have been promoted

How the Media and the Experts Determine how We See the Rest of the World

Covering Islam

Six lectures discuss what it means to be an intellectual and the role of intellectuals in society

The 1993 Reith Lectures

Representations of the Intellectual

David Barsamian

Engaging conversations with the leading cultural critic and world-renowned commentator on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Conversations with Edward W. Said

Culture and Resistance

Christopher Hitchens

Blaming the Victims demonstrates with cold precision how the consistent denial of truth about the Palestinians by governments and the media in the West has led to the current impasse in Middle East politics. Controversial, forceful and above all honest it attempts to redress a sustained crime against historical truth in order to make a more rational political future in Palestine possible. With a new introduction by Edward Said and Christopher Hitchens and contributions by Norman G. Finkelstein, Peretz Kidron, Noam Chomsky, G.W. Bowerstock, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, Rashid Khalidi, Janet L. Abu-Lughod, Muhammad Hallaj and Elia Zureik.

Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question

Blaming the Victims

Bati'nin Sark Anlayislari

Sarkiyatcilik

Essays by the Palestinian American political analyist examine the challenges to Palestine and Israel in the Middle East peace process

Essays on Palestine in the Middle East Peace Process

Peace and Its Discontents

Erich Auerbach

More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia Woolf depicted reality has taught generations how to read Western literature. This new expanded edition includes a substantial essay in introduction by Edward Said as well as an essay, never before translated into English, in which Auerbach responds to his critics. A German Jew, Auerbach was forced out of his professorship at the University of Marburg in 1935. He left for Turkey, where he taught at the state university in Istanbul. There he wrote Mimesis, publishing it in German after the end of the war. Displaced as he was, Auerbach produced a work of great erudition that contains no footnotes, basing his arguments instead on searching, illuminating readings of key passages from his primary texts. His aim was to show how from antiquity to the twentieth century literature progressed toward ever more naturalistic and democratic forms of representation. This essentially optimistic view of European history now appears as a defensive--and impassioned--response to the inhumanity he saw in the Third Reich. Ranging over works in Greek, Latin, Spanish, French, Italian, German, and English, Auerbach used his remarkable skills in philology and comparative literature to refute any narrow form of nationalism or chauvinism, in his own day and ours. For many readers, both inside and outside the academy, Mimesis is among the finest works of literary criticism ever written. This Princeton Classics edition includes a substantial introduction by Edward Said as well as an essay in which Auerbach responds to his critics.

The Representation of Reality in Western Literature

Mimesis

Jacqueline Rose

Banned by the Freud Institute in Vienna, this controversial lecture became Edward Said's final book.

Freud and the Non-European

A collection of essays by the late cultural critic explores great works of music and literature produced by Beethoven, Schoenberg, Mann, Cavafy, Beckett, Gould, Straus, Genet, and others at the end of their creative lives, analyzing how these works differed from previous ones and what they reveal about each musician's or writer's artistic evolution. Reprint.

Music And Literature Against the Grain

On Late Style

A searing portrait in words and photographs of Palestinian life and identity that is at once an exploration of Edward Said's own dislocated past and a testimony to the lives of those living in exile.

Palestinian Lives

After the Last Sky

Looks at the history of the Palestinian quest for self-determination and discusses the current situation

The Struggle for Palestinian Self-determination, 1969-1994

The Politics of Dispossession

Includes essays and excerpts from the author's memoir, "Out of Place," as well as his thoughts on politics, history, literature, music, and cultural studies.

The Edward Said Reader

Orientalismo. L'immagine europea dell'Oriente

Investigates the relationship between culture and the imperialism of the West through an examination of the concept of empire-building in Western literature

Culture and Imperialism

Noam Chomsky

Ramsey Clark

In Acts of Aggression three distinguished activist scholars examine the background and ramifications of the U.S. conflict with Iraq. Through three separate essays, the pamphlet provides an in-depth analysis of U.S./Arab relations, the contradictions and consequences of U.S. foreign policy toward "rogue states," and how hostile American actions abroad conflict with UN resolutions and international law.

Policing Rogue States

Acts of Aggression

Fifty essays examine the consequences of the Middle East peace process, discussing how stability in the occupied territories is undermined by the expansion of Israeli settlements and Arafat's repressive leadership.

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