Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 207. Not illustrated. Chapters: Sari Nusseibeh, Edward Said, Izzat Darwaza, Mahmoud Darwish, Nur-Eldeen Masalha, Ismail Al-Faruqi, Hanan Ashrawi, Walid Shoebat, Ghassan Kanafani, Walid Khalidi, Ghada Karmi, Elias Chacour, Sabri Jiryis, Susan Abulhawa, Mourid Barghouti, Khalil Beidas, Rami George Khouri, Subhi Al-Khadra, Hisham Sharabi, Samih Al-Qasim, Sami Hadawi, Emile Habibi, Abu Muhammad Asem Al-Maqdisi, Fahmi Al-Husseini, Hanna Batatu, Will Youmans, Rosemarie Said Zahlan, Salman Abu-Sitta, Samir El-Youssef, Fayyad Sbaihat, Hasan Hourani, Nasr Abdel Aziz Eleyan, Yezid Sayigh, Serene Husseini Shahid, Khaled Yashruti, Ghazi Hamad, Said Aburish, Bashir Barghouti, Farrah Sarafa, Suad Amiry, Raja Shehadeh, Khaled Juma, Waleed Zuaiter, Nimr Al-Khatib, Sliman Mansour, Jalal Toufic, Saleem. Excerpt: Edward Wadie Said (Arabic pronunciation: Arabic: ; 1 November 1935 25 September 2003) was a Palestinian-American literary theorist and advocate for Palestinian rights. He was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and a founding figure in postcolonialism. Robert Fisk described him as the Palestinians' "most powerful political voice." Said was an influential cultural critic and author, known best for his book Orientalism (1978), which catapulted him to international academic fame. The book presented his influential ideas on Orientalism, the Western study of Eastern cultures. Said contended that Orientalist scholarship was and continues to be inextricably tied to the imperialist societies that produced it, making much of the work inherently politicized, servile to power, and therefore suspect. Grounding much of this thesis in his intimate knowledge of colonial literature such as the fiction of Conrad, and in the post-structuralist theory of Foucault, Derrida and others, Said's Orientalism and foll...