RIP, Edward Said

• 25 September 2003
• academia

Via the New York Times comes news of the death of Edward Said, who had been fighting leukemia for several years.

The obituary interestingly reflects our current cultural obsessions, I think; “Leading Advocate of Palestinians” makes the headline, while Orientalism doesn’t appear until paragraph 21.

His loss will be felt deeply, both within the academy and in the political realm.

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