02490nam a2200325 i 4500 EG-ScBUE 20260218145820.0 200219s2025 ua f b 001 0deng d 9781649031761 EG-ScBUE eng rda EG-ScBUE EG-ScBUE 956.04 22 HOV Hovsepian, Nubar, author. Edward Said : the politics of an oppositional intellectual / Nubar Hovsepian ; foreword by Rashid Khalidi. Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, 2025. xxii, 294 pages ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Preface : My Special Relationship with Edward Said - why it matters -- Edward Said as Oppositional Intellectual -- Orientalism and its Afterlives -- Imperialism, Culture, and the Colonial Present -- Palestine : Inclusion Without Domination -- Arafat's Man Turns Oppositional (1998-2003) -- "The Last Jewish Intellectual." "A simple and focused question guides this inquiry. How does Said's humanism inform his politics? Said wrote from the comforts of an elite university in New York City connecting his theoretical or contrapuntal insights to the political controversies of the day. Palestine/Israel and Zionism, the Arab world, the clash of Islam and the West. He went against the grain by offering a counter narrative on these thorny issues. In addition to critiquing and opposing imperialism, Said actively supported liberation movements and opposed power and state strategies to quell resistance to oppression. The Arab and Arab-American context is crucial in explaining Said's political affiliations and actions. First, the 1967 Arab-Israeli war occasions Said's rebirth as a Palestinian. In 1974, he chooses to affiliate publicly with the PLO, in conjunction with Arafat's address to the UN General Assembly. His affiliative choices inform his subsequent writing, including Orientalism, and the two books that flow out it: The Question of Palestine and Covering Islam"-- Provided by publisher. Said, Edward W. Political and social views. BUEsh Orientalism. BUEsh Imperialism. BUEsh Arab-Israeli conflict. BUEsh February2026 GGEN Reading book ddc BB 31145 31116 0 0 ddc 0 0 AUC MAIN MAIN 2ND 2026-02-18 600.00 0 956.04 HOV 000057554 2026-02-18 00:00:00 750.00 2026-02-18 BB