Edward Said on the war in Iraq

Edward Wadie Said (November 1, 1935 - September 25, 2003) was a Palestinian American literary theorist, cultural critic and an advocate for Palestinian rights. It 'been a professor at the University of English and comparative literature at Columbia University and one of the founding fathers in post-colonialism. Robert Fisk has described as the most powerful voice of the Palestinians' policy. "Said is best known for a description and critique of" Orientalism ", which is perceived as a constellation of false hypothesesunderlying Western attitudes towards the East. In Orientalism (1978), stated that "a subtle and persistent Eurocentric prejudice against Arab and Islamic nations said, and their culture." He claimed that he had a long history of false and romanticized images of Asia and the Middle East in Western culture as an implicit justification for Europe and the U.S., "served the colonial and imperial ambitions. How strongly he condemned the practice of Arab elites who internalized the American and British Orientalists "The ideas of Arab culture. Said he was awarded numerous honorary doctorates from universities around the world and twice received Columbia Trilling Award and the Wellek Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association. In 1999 he won first prize in Spinoza's Lens on Ethics. His autobiographical memories Out of Place won the 1999 New York Prize for nonfiction. He was also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the RoyalCompany ...