Edward Said may be the world’s most famous English professor, and its most famous Palestinian after Yasir Arafat. In the academy, he is best known for his influential critique of “Orientalism,” that ...

Jonathan Calt Harris of Campus Watch writes in the New York Post today on Rashid Khalidi, the new ’Edward Said Chair of Middle East Studies at Columbia University.’ Here is a quote: In short, a biased ...

At the industry awards of Copenhagen's documentary festival CPH:DOX last night, the U.S. project "Untitled Edward Said Documentary" by Maiken Baird, whose credits include Netflix's "Venus and Serena" ...

Robert Irwin, who has died aged 77, was a distinguished scholar of the history and literature of the Islamic world, an acclaimed novelist, author of a withering critique of the Edward Said school of ...

Across the globe, we are living in a moment of profound crisis where the very essence of education as a democratic institution is under attack. In the United States, the assault on higher education is ...

A passionate conversation about exile, literature and critical theory. Palestinian-born Edward Said discusses his work: from his early philosophical criticism, through his more engaged critique of ...

On Sunday 9th March, City of London Sinfonia and the London Review of Books will present dazzling works of music and literature created in the twilight of great artistic lives. The performance will ...

In Out of Place, Palestinian-American literary critic Edward Said remarkably traces an exalted recollection of his life between cultures — Cambridge’s academic halls and Cairo’s teeming streets, ...