Orientalism

Edward W. Said was University Professor at Columbia University,
where he has taught English and Comparative Literature. He
was born in Jerusalem in 1935 and educated at Victoria College,
Cairo, Mount Hermon School, Massachusetts, and at Princeton and
Harvard universities. In 1974 he was Visiting Professor of Com-
parative Literature at Harvard, in 1975-6 Fellow of the Center for
Advanced Study in Behavioral Science at Stanford, and in 1979
Visiting Professor of Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. He
was editor of the Arab Studies Quarterly, and a member of the Council
of Foreign Relations, New York, the American Academy of Arts and
Letters, the American Philosophical Society and the Royal Society of
Literature. He has received Harvard University's Bowdoin Prize and
the Lionel Trilling Award at Columbia in 1976 and in 1994. In 1998,
Said received the Sultan Owais Prize for general cultural achievement;
he became an Honorary Fellow of the Middle Eastern studies Associ-
ation in 1999; and in 2002, he received the Prince of Asturias Prize.
His books include Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography,
Beginnings: Intention and Method; The Question of Palestine', Litera-
ture and Society; The World, The Text and the Critic; Covering Islam;
After the Last Sky; Blaming the Victims; Culture and Imperialism;
Representations of the Intellectual; Out of Place: A Memoir; The End
of the Peace Process: Oslo and After; Peace and its Discontents: Gaza
to Jericho 1993-1995; Parallels and Paradoxes: Explorations of Music
and Society; and Freud and the Non-European