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Edward Said, 1935 - 2003
8:01-8:06 Headlines
8:06-8:07 One Minute Music Break
8:07-8:58 - Edward Said, 1935 - 2003
Renowned scholar, activist and intellectual Professor Edward
W. Said, 67, died yesterday 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.
Today we spend the hour listening to Edward Said in his own
words. We play a speech he gave on June 15, at the American
Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee's annual conference. It
was one of his last major addresses.
- David Barsamian, director of Alternative Radio. He is
the author of Culture and Resistance: Conversations With
Edward W. Said and The Pen and the Sword.
Link: www.alternativeradio.org
- Edward Said, speaking at the American Arab Anti-Discrimination
Committee's annual conference on June 15, 2003.
Link: www.adc.org
8:58-8:59 Outro and Credits
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Democracy Now! is produced by Mike Burke, Sharif Abdel Kouddous,
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Mike Di Filippo is our engineer.
[Thanks also to Uri Galed, Angela Alston, Orlando Richards,
Simba Russeau, Rafael delaUz, Gabriel Weiss, Johnny Sender,
Rich Kim, Chris Zucker, Karen Ranucci, Denis Moynihan, Jenny
Filipazzo]
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