Edward Said Identity
Professor: Raj Chandarlapaty
Name: Farhad Mahmody
ID# 8670
Class: Expository essay writing
How Edward said Identify him self
Edward Wadie Said was one of the most noticeable and influent scholars. This influential Palestinian man was born in1935; he was an Arab American, which was well known for advocating the role of intellectuals in society as a role exemplary illustrated by him. He insisted that the true intellectual’s role must be that of the amateur, as an amateur is not stimulated by academic rewards nor pursuing a career, being capable of impartial engagement with ideas and values. Known both for his original research in the field of comparative literature and his incisive political commentary, Said regularly appeared in The Guardian of London and the Arab-language daily al-Hayat, printed in every Arab capital in the world. He was completed his educations at Princeton and Harvard. Said attended in both British and American colonial schools in Cairo, before graduating from Princeton in 1957 and receiving his PhD from Harvard in 1964.
Moreover Said lectured at more than 150 universities and colleges in the United States, Canada and Europe, and received honorary doctorates from Bir Zeit, Chicago, Michigan, Jawaharlal Nehru, Jami’a Malleyeh, Toronto, Guelph, Edinburgh, Haverford, Warwick, Exeter, National University of Ireland and American University in Cairo. He twice received Columbia’s Trilling Award and the Wellek Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Royal Society of Literature, a member of King’s College, Cambridge, and an Honorary Fellow of the Middle East Studies Association. In 1999 he was President of Modern Languages Association. He was well known as a learned, refined, but acid Palestinian activist. As he wrote the book “The Public Role of Writers and Intellectuals” he mentioned in his article “the example closest to home for
Name: Farhad Mahmody
ID# 8670
Class: Expository essay writing
How Edward said Identify him self
Edward Wadie Said was one of the most noticeable and influent scholars. This influential Palestinian man was born in1935; he was an Arab American, which was well known for advocating the role of intellectuals in society as a role exemplary illustrated by him. He insisted that the true intellectual’s role must be that of the amateur, as an amateur is not stimulated by academic rewards nor pursuing a career, being capable of impartial engagement with ideas and values. Known both for his original research in the field of comparative literature and his incisive political commentary, Said regularly appeared in The Guardian of London and the Arab-language daily al-Hayat, printed in every Arab capital in the world. He was completed his educations at Princeton and Harvard. Said attended in both British and American colonial schools in Cairo, before graduating from Princeton in 1957 and receiving his PhD from Harvard in 1964.
Moreover Said lectured at more than 150 universities and colleges in the United States, Canada and Europe, and received honorary doctorates from Bir Zeit, Chicago, Michigan, Jawaharlal Nehru, Jami’a Malleyeh, Toronto, Guelph, Edinburgh, Haverford, Warwick, Exeter, National University of Ireland and American University in Cairo. He twice received Columbia’s Trilling Award and the Wellek Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Royal Society of Literature, a member of King’s College, Cambridge, and an Honorary Fellow of the Middle East Studies Association. In 1999 he was President of Modern Languages Association. He was well known as a learned, refined, but acid Palestinian activist. As he wrote the book “The Public Role of Writers and Intellectuals” he mentioned in his article “the example closest to home for