Culled from Democracynow

Renowned scholar, activist and intellectual Professor Edward W. Said, 67, 
died overnight after a decade-long battle with leukemia. His death comes just 
days before the third anniversary of the Palestinian Intifada, or uprising. He 
had been diagnosed with cancer during the Persian Gulf War. The past decade he 
fought tirelessly against both the cancer and the war.

Said was known throughout the world as a leading thinker, and there are few 
fields of intellectual endeavor that have been untouched by his contributions. 

He was a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia 
University and the author of over a dozen books, including Peace and its Discontents: 
Essays on Palestine in the Middle East Peace Process, Culture and Imperialism 
and Orientalism. His writings have been translated into 26 languages. He was a 
frequent guest on Democracy Now! and other Pacifica programs and a great 
fighter for voiceless victims around the world.

Said was born in Jerusalem on November 1, 1935, when it was under British 
control. In 1948, his family was dispossessed from Palestine and settled in 
Cairo. At the age of 17, he was sent to the United States as a student. He received 
a bachelor's degree from Princeton in 1957 and a master's and Ph.D. from 
Harvard, in 1960 and 1964.

The 1967 Arab-Israeli war stirred him to political activism. When Israeli 
Prime Minister Golda Meir infamously declared in 1969, "There are no 
Palestinians," Said decided to take on "the slightly preposterous challenge of disproving 
her, of beginning to articulate a history of loss and dispossession that had 
to be extricated, minute by minute, word by word, inch by inch."

He was an eloquent voice for justice throughout the Palestinian struggle and 
noted as one of the foremost intellectuals on the Middle East and colonialism.

Because of his advocacy for Palestinian self-determination and his membership 
in the Palestine National Council, Said was not allowed to visit Palestine 
until several years ago. 

A prolific scholar and intellectual, Said was also an acomplished concert 
pianist and music critic and was fluent in Arabic and French.
Listen || Watch - Edward Said on Democracy Now!June 26th, 2003 <A HREF="http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/26/152245">Edward Said on 
Israel, Palestine and the Most Recent Middle East Peace Plan</A> Hamas agrees to 
ceasefire but President Bush derides it and Israel attacks Gaza Strip, killing 
two Palestinian civilians. Today we hear a major address recorded last week 
from Edward Said, the internationally renowned author and scholar. 

April 24th, 2003 <A HREF="http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/0027207">Edward Said Speech</A> We turn now to Columbia University 
Professor Edward Said speaking in New York... 

April 23rd, 2003 <A HREF="http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/0026255">Columbia University Professor Edward Said: History, 
Colonialism and How the U.S. Is Changing the Map of the Middle East</A> 
Last week Columbia University professor Edward Said spoke at a 25th 
anniversary... 

April 15th, 2003 <A HREF="http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/225212">Syrian Expert Patrick Seale and Columbia University 
Professor Edward Said Discuss the State of the Middle East After the Invasion of Iraq </A>
Secretary Of State Gen. Colin Powell accused Syria of harboring officials from 
Saddam Hussein's government, and threatened economic or diplomatic sanctions. 


May 28th, 2002T<A HREF="http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/0259222">he Politics of Culture: Professor Edward Said Talks About the 
U.S. Media As An Arm of the So-Called War On Terror Against the Arab </A>A story 
by Gideon Levy in the Israeli newspaper, Ha'aretz, begins like this... 

January 1st, 2002 <A HREF="http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/0249201">Edward Said Ushers in the New Year with Democracy Now! in 
Exile </A>Guest:Edward Said, professor of comparative literature...

December 26th, 2001 <A HREF="http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/0223214">Edward Said Discusses the Cycle of Violence</A> 
Just as the Afghanistan's new provisional government was preparing to take... 


September 25th, 2001 <A HREF="http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/0211229">As Israel Intensifies Its Occupation in Palestinian 
Territories, a Conversation with Edward Said</A> Since the attacks on the World Trade 
Center and Pentagon political commentators... 

August 3rd, 2001 <A HREF="http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/028209">As Israel Insists It Will Continue Assassinating 
Palestinians, a Conversation with Edward Said</A> Palestinian President Yasser Arafat met 
with Pope John Paul in Rome yesterday.... 

March 14th, 2001 <A HREF="http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/0158231">New York Times Casts Stones at Edward Said</A> 
t was a great photo, spread large across the New York Times: In it, a 
renowned English professor stands atthe Lebanese border winding up to pitch a stone, 
according to the caption, at Israeli soldiers. It turns out that the only 
bull's eye the professor hit was a wall of biases and preconceptions.

February 8th, 2001 <A HREF="http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/0156229">Edward Said On Palestinian Politics and the Search for 
Justice </A>Only two days after Ariel Sharon decisively won the Israeli election for 
Prime Minister, he rejected a Palestiniancall to pick up the peace process 
where talks left off.

December 29th, 2000 <A HREF="http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/0248259">End of Millennium Conversation: Sebastiao Salgado, 
Eduardo Galeano, Edward Said, South African National Assembly Speaker Frene Ginwala, 
Noam Chomsky, Manning Marable, Film Maker John Pilger</A> Today, we stand on the 
border of two millennia. We will look back on the last century with some of 
the people who helped to document a pageant of abuse and to fight against 
injustice.

October 16th, 2000 <A HREF="http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/0243204">Edward Said On His Experience As a Palestinian</A>
As thousands of Iraqis marched through the streets of Baghdad this morning 
volunteering to help Palestinians fight Israel, a last ditch effort at bringing 
peace began this morning in Sharm El-Shiekh, Egypt. 

December 21st, 1999 <A HREF="http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/0415204">Reparations for the Palestinians</A> 
German, U.S. and east European officials sealed a historic agreement on 
Friday to compensate Nazi era slave workers 54 years after World War Two, offering 
5 billion dollars to the former workers and their survivors

May 14th, 1999 <A HREF="http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/042214">Edward Said and Noam Chomsky Speak On NATO Bombings of 
Yugoslavia</A> NATO has confirmed that it is checking reports that it killed 100 
civilians in Southwestern Kosovo when it attacked Yugoslavia overnight with the 
heaviest raids of its seven-week bombing campaign.

May 11th, 1999 <A HREF="http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/042205">Professor Edward Said Speaks On the Plight of Palestinians </A>
Israel's Supreme Court stopped the government from closing the headquarters of 
the Palestinian Liberation Organization in Jerusalem today, defusing a potential 
showdown just six days before general elections. 

April 12th, 1999 <A HREF="http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/040201">Noam Chomsky and Edward Said On Kosovo</A> 
NATO struck at Serbia's industrial heartland today, returning to sites 
already hard hit in the allied air campaign.

February 26th, 1998 <A HREF="http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/0334253">Iraq Crisis</A> Four people were arrested at the White House 
last night. 





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the government, you have tyranny." 
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