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Edward Said

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Directed movies: 0Directed series: 0All crew credits: 2

TMDB ID: 968931

IMDb ID: nm0756429

Known for: Acting

Born: November 1, 1935

Died: September 24, 2003

Age: 67

Place of birth: Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1979 - 2019

Years active: 41

Average TMDB rating: 6.94

Wikidata: Q201538

Also known as

Edward Wadie Saïd • إدوارد وديع سعيد • Idwārd Wadīʿ Saʿīd

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Biography

Edward Wadie Said (1 November 1935 – 24 September 2003) was a Palestinian and American academic, literary critic, and political activist. As a professor of literature at Columbia University, he was among the founders of post-colonial studies. As a cultural critic, Said is best known for his book Orientalism (1978), a foundational text which critiques the cultural representations that are the bases of Orientalism—how the Western world perceives the Orient. His model of textual analysis transformed the academic discourse of researchers in literary theory, literary criticism, and Middle Eastern studies.