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082 0 4 _a956.04
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_bHOV
100 1 _aHovsepian, Nubar,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aEdward Said :
_bthe politics of an oppositional intellectual /
_cNubar Hovsepian ; foreword by Rashid Khalidi.
264 1 _aCairo ;
_aNew York :
_bThe American University in Cairo Press,
_c2025.
300 _axxii, 294 pages ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aPreface : 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."
520 _a"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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
600 1 7 _aSaid, Edward W.
_xPolitical and social views.
_2BUEsh
650 7 _aOrientalism.
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650 7 _aImperialism.
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650 7 _aArab-Israeli conflict.
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653 _cFebruary2026
_bGGEN
655 _vReading book
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