Palestinian Academics: Sari Nusseibeh, Edward Said, Rashid Khalidi, Joseph Massad, Nur-Eldeen Masalha, Ismail Al-Faruqi, Khalil Al-Sakakini

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: Sari Nusseibeh, Edward Said, Rashid Khalidi, Joseph Massad, Nur-eldeen Masalha, Ismail al-Faruqi, Khalil al-Sakakini, Ghada Karmi, Riyad Hassan El-Khoudary, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, Hatem Bazian, Leila Farsakh, Khalil Beidas, Helga Tawil-Souri, Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, Hisham Sharabi, The Jerusalem Fund, Ali Jarbawi, Qustandi Shomali, Hanna Batatu, Samih Farsoun, Rosemarie Said Zahlan, Ahmad Teebi, Naseer Aruri, Khalil Jahshan, Palestine Center, Sami A. Aldeeb, Daoud Kuttab, Yezid Sayigh, Tamim al-Barghouti, Hasan Karmi, Hanna Nasser, Sana al-Sayegh, Jamal Nassar, Ghassan Andoni, Ahmad Abu Matar, Saleh Abd al-Jawad, Yasir Suleiman, Jacqueline Sfeir, Manuel Hassassian, Mahmoud Yazbak, Bishara Khader, Khaled Hroub. Excerpt: Edward Wadie Said (Arabic pronunciation: Arabic:; 1 November 1935 - 25 September 2003) was a Palestinian American literary theorist and advocate for Palestinian rights. He was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and a founding figure in postcolonialism. Robert Fisk described him as the Palestinians' most powerful political voice. Said was an influential cultural critic and author, known best for his book Orientalism (1978), which catapulted him to international academic fame. The book presented his influential ideas on Orientalism, the Western study of Eastern cultures. Said contended that Orientalist scholarship was and continues to be inextricably tied to the imperialist societies that produced it, making much of the work inherently politicized, servile to power, and therefore suspect. Grounding much of this thesis in his intimate knowledge of colonial literature such as the fiction of Conrad, and in the post-structuralist theory of Foucault, Derrida and others, Said's Orientalism and following works proved influential in literary theory and criticism, an...