A university professor of literature at Columbia University has died. He was witty, elegant and powerful, passionate about his field of study and a man of aristocratic bearing. He loved opera and art and wrote lovely, erudite books. What made him especially important, however, was none of the preceding. Edward W. Said was one of the architects of all reasonable discussion on the question of Palestine and commanded the moral authority to discuss the subject honestly and outside the rhetoric of hatred and violence. Read more about Edward Said: one of the architects of all reasonable discussion on Palestine
I am not a terrorist, but neither am I a pacifist. I am simply a regular guy from the Palestinian street advocating only what every other oppressed person has advocated — the right to help myself in the absence of help from anywhere else. Read more about Want Security? End the Occupation
Though I am the one in chains, it is not I who is on trial in Israel. Rather, what is on trial today is the conscience of all freedom-loving people around the world. Read more about "It is not I who is on trial in Israel"
Edward W. Said, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, a member of the Columbia faculty since 1963 and University Professor since 1992, died on Thursday, September 25, at 6:45 a.m. One of the most influential scholars in the world, Said was also a devoted and beloved teacher to generations of Columbia students. The University mourns his passing. Read more about Columbia community mourns passing of Edward Said, beloved and esteemed University Professor
Partners for Peace was deeply grieved to learn that Edward Said passed away today in New York after a long illness. Professor Said was a brilliant scholar and powerful voice for a just peace between Palestinians and Israelis. Even as he waged a difficult personal struggle against cancer, he maintained his vigorous efforts to advance Palestinian freedom. Read more about Edward Said: "I've Been to the Mountaintop"
We, who supported the Palestinian cause, have been orphaned with the untimely death of Edward Said. For Israeli Jews, like myself, he was the lighthouse that navigated us out of the darkness and confusion of growing in a Zionist state onto a safer coast of reason, morality and consciousness. Israeli academic Ilan Pappe remembers Edward Said. Read more about Edward Said: A lighthouse that navigated us
The last time I saw Edward Said, I asked him to go on living. I knew about his leukaemia. He had often pointed out that he was receiving “state-of-the-art” treatment from a Jewish doctor and - despite all the trash that his enemies threw at him - he always acknowledged the kindness and honour of his Jewish friends, of whom Daniel Barenboim was among the finest. Robert Fisk remembers Edward Said. Read more about Palestinian, intellectual, and fighter, Edward Said rails against Arafat and Sharon to his dying breath
It is with heart-breaking sorrow that the Palestinian National Initiative announces the tragic death of Edward Said who passed away today after eleven years fighting leukemia. At this time our thoughts and love are with his family. We wish them strength and courage and assurance that Edward will be a man forever remembered not only for his incredible achievements but for his remarkable qualities as a friend. Though words may do little at such a time to assuage the pain and grief something must be said to pay homage to a man and a life we should truly celebrate. Read more about Tribute to Edward Said
Edward Said’s life and work is a story of transcendence of the cultural and spatial barriers that so often thoughtlessly divide humanity. Born in Jerusalem, the capital of the three great monotheistic faiths and a city that he once called “a seamless amalgam of cultures and religions engaged, like members of the same family, on the same plot of land in which all has become entwined with all,” he would live most of his late life and finally die in New York City, the capital of the modern world and where men and women from every corner of the earth converge to form a modern amalgam of peoples unlike anything ever known before. There could have been no more fitting places for the beginning and end of the life’s journey of Edward Said. AAPER president George Naggiar remembers Said. Read more about The Beautiful Mind of Edward Said
We mourn with greatest sadness the death today of Professor Edward W. Said. We extend our deepest sympathy and condolences to Edward Said’s family, and we share our profound sense of loss with the many and diverse communities that loved him. Said is known throughout the world as a public intellectual, and there are few fields of intellectual endeavor that are untouched by his contributions. A prolific and path-breaking scholar whose contributions helped transform humanities and social sciences, Said’s impact and engagement went far beyond the academy. Said was also an activist who worked courageously for justice, and fearlessly spoke truth to power. The founders of EI remember Edward Said. Read more about Remembering Edward Said
