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Ferial Ghazoul
Edward Said and Islam
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Peter van der Veer
Edward Said in the Netherlands
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Mouin Rabbani
Edward Said and Palestine
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Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali
Edward Said and Eqbal Ahmad
s ‘The terrible conflicts that herd people under falsely unifying rubrics like “America,” “The West”
o r “Islam” and invent collective identities for large numbers of individuals who are actually quite
diverse, cannot remain as potent as they are, and must be opposed. We still have at our disposal
t h e rational interpretive skills that are the legacy of humanistic education, not as a sentimental piety
enjoining us to return to traditional values or the classics but as the active practice of worldly secular
rational discourse.’ (Edward Said, Orientalism 25 Years Later, CounterPunch, 4 August 2003).
s Edward Said died on 25 September 2003
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