Edward Said

  • How Edward Said took intellectuals for a ride

    The famous professor and Palestine advocate claimed that bigoted Western stereotypes about the Orient support imperialism. But Middle East scholar Robert Irwin proves it was Said who didn't have the full picture.
    By Gary Kamiya December 6, 2006

  • Never the twain shall meet

    "Occidentalism" offers a grand theory about why Arabs and Muslims feel the way they do about the West -- but ignores what the West has done to them.
    By Christopher John Farah May 17, 2004

  • Osama University?

    Neoconservative critics have long charged Middle Eastern studies departments with anti-American bias. Now they've enlisted Congress in their crusade.
    By Michelle Goldberg November 6, 2003

  • On closer reading

    At the fifth annual conference of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, the old guard looks for the the Young Turks to take up their bookish battle cry.
    By Boris Kachka November 17, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    You think the media's money fixation is new? Plus: Remembering George C. Scott; what does Salon have against organized religion?
    Letters to the Editor October 11, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    Horowitz takes aim at wrong targets, and misfires. Plus: the bizarre world of advertising; do doctors always know best?
    Letters to the Editor October 4, 1999

  • Said who?

    In his new memoir, "Out of Place," Edward Said brings his exile into focus and finds a home between his past and his future.
    By Chris Colin October 4, 1999

  • The myth weavers

    Three leading leftist figures have been exposed this year as having lied about their backgrounds. Has the failure of their ideology forced them to fictionalize?
    By David Horowitz September 27, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    It's time for action in East Timor; misunderstanding "Stigmata"; cybercommunism and "free" software.
    Letters to the Editor September 17, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    Blame the airlines for "air rage"; Greil Marcus takes a tasteless swipe at the Spin Doctors; Mr. Blue's bad advice to single mom.
    Letters to the Editor September 14, 1999

  • Said critic blasts back at Hitchens

    A third volley in the controversy over the leading Palestinian intellectual in America.
    By Craig Offman September 10, 1999

  • Commentary's scurrilous attack on Edward Said

    Enemies are calling him "the Palestinian Tawana Brawley," but Said's stories of displacement and diaspora are true.
    By Christopher Hitchens September 7, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    Is Britney Spears just "lovestruck"? Plus: Gates' personality quirks conceal real issues in Redmond; selling science with sex appeal.
    Letters to the Editor September 2, 1999

  • Edward Said to respond to claims he's not a true Palestinian

    Middle East scholar is accused of misrepresenting his past.
    By Craig Offman August 26, 1999
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