Edward Said memorial service to be webcast

2004-02-28 Thread Louis Proyect
This message is to confirm that the Office of Presidential Events and University Ceremonies at Columbia University has received your response regarding the Edward Said Memorial Service on Wednesday, March 3 at 2:00 p.m. The service will be held at St. Paul 's Chapel, Columbia University, New York

Timothy Brennan on Edward Said and Christopher Hitchens (great stuff!!!)

2004-02-03 Thread Louis Proyect
Scholars and Pretenders -- Timothy Brennan Said and Hitchens Note: This essay was composed in August and early September and completed the day Edward Said died. It was not written in the spirit of memorialization, therefore, but as a clarification of his intellectual achievements to set

Tue., Oct. 7: Edward Said Commemoration

2003-10-03 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Symposium to Commemorate the Life and Work of Edward W. Said (1935-2003) Tuesday, October 7 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM: a screening of _The Shadow of the West_ (written and narrated by Edward Said) 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM: a panel discussion on the life and work of Edward Said Denney Hall, Room 311 (the Commons

Edward Said: A Road Map to Where?

2003-06-16 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
* LRB | Vol. 25 No. 12 dated 19 June 2003 | Edward Said A Road Map to Where? Edward Said ...Bush's vision (the word strikes a weird dreamy note in what is meant to be a hard-headed, definitive peace plan) is supposed to be realised by the restructuring of the Palestinian Authority

maxim rodinson on edward said

2003-03-17 Thread soula avramidis
when maxim rodinson was asked what he thought of edward said in a very recent interview on aljazeera he said. I never liked from the beginning. he does not know the arab world and pretends he does.his thought is bourgeois and he is an idealist. up until this moment he has no sound theoretical

Re: maxim rodinson on edward said

2003-03-17 Thread andie nachgeborenen
soula avramidis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when maxim rodinson was asked what he thought of edward said in a very recent interview on aljazeera he said. I never liked from the beginning. he does not know the arab world and pretends he does.his thought is bourgeois and he is an idealist. up until

Re: Re: maxim rodinson on edward said

2003-03-17 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: andie nachgeborenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Truth in what, that people in literary philosophy: do not know one thing very well? It's true that there's an immense amount of ignorance and foolishness in literary theory. But it's dumb to diss someone because of his

Re: Re: maxim rodinson on edward said

2003-03-17 Thread soula avramidis
At least the Moufti next door thinks that said knows little about Islam, not to mention he is a christian. but just maybe a quick reading on the formation of a culture of resistance under colonialism will tell where he came from. but i think rodinson is entitled to his opinion, no harm done,

Edward Said

2003-01-24 Thread Ian Murray
When will we resist? Edward Said: The US is preparing to attack the Arab world, while the Arabs whimper in submission Saturday January 25, 2003 The Guardian One opens the New York Times on a daily basis to read the most recent article about the preparations for war that are taking place

Israel's dead end - Edward Said

2001-12-30 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
Israel's dead end By Edward Said http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2001/565/op1.htm The earth is closing on us, pushing us through the last passage, and we tear off our limbs to pass through. Thus Mahmoud Darwish, writing in the aftermath of the PLO's exit from Beirut in September 1982. Where

RE: Israel's dead end - Edward Said

2001-12-30 Thread Devine, James
Edward Said says:Have any of the innumerable members of the foreign media covering the conflict done a story about these brutalised young Israelis conscripts, trained to punish Palestinian civilians as the main part of their military duty? I think not. the (U.S.) NATION magazine -- which also

Re: RE: Israel's dead end - Edward Said

2001-12-30 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
Edward Said says:Have any of the innumerable members of the foreign media covering the conflict done a story about these brutalised young Israelis conscripts, trained to punish Palestinian civilians as the main part of their military duty? I think not. the (U.S.) NATION magazine -- which also

Edward Said Speaks at Ohio University

2001-11-03 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
and literature function to construct and maintain political and cultural boundaries between Jews and Palestinians and reinforce group identities and representations of the other. KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Edward Said, University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and one

Edward Said

2001-10-05 Thread Jim Devine
according to a SLATE summary of an article in the WEEKLY [DOUBLE] STANDARD, An article scorns Edward Said specifically and post-colonial theory in general. As Said has watched his dream of an alliance between Western liberalism and Arab nationalism crumble with the World Trade Center, he has

Re: Edward Said

2001-10-05 Thread Shane Mage
Title: Re: [PEN-L:18153] Edward Said Jim Devine asks: according to a SLATE summary of an article in the WEEKLY [DOUBLE] STANDARD, An article scorns Edward Said specifically and post-colonial theory in general. As Said has watched his dream of an alliance between Western liberalism and Arab

Occupation is the Atrocity (by Edward Said)

2001-08-20 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
, writes Edward Said, is a united leadership that takes positions and plans mass actions designed not to return to Oslo but to press on with resistance and liberation.] Occupation is the Atrocity By Edward Said [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the United States, where Israel has its main political base

Re: Fwd: Edward Said : Law and order (fwd)

2000-04-10 Thread Mine Aysen Doyran
Subject: Edward Said : Law and order Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 17:48:14 + From: MENA Info [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MENA Info [EMAIL PROTECTED] MENA Info - http://www.listbot.com/archive/menainfo Law and order

Voices, periphery, Edward Said: [Fwd: (To POS 787)Fwd: A truly fragile identity]

2000-03-29 Thread Mine Aysen Doyran
you can ignore the first two sentences. I tried to reply it directly, but it went through strangely. i am forwarding it now. peace, Mine A very interesting piece by Edward Said. As we discussed in the Ajami book, note the centrality of poetry. See you tonight. Note: forwarded message

[PEN-L:10330] Attack on Edward Said

1999-08-24 Thread Michael Keaney
Friends rally to repulse attack on Edward Said Julian Borger in Washington The Guardian, Monday August 23, 1999 The credibility of one of the best known torch-bearers for the Palestinian cause, Professor Edward Said, came under fierce assault over the weekend after he was accused

[PEN-L:4786] [Fwd: Edward Said on NATO bombing]

1999-04-03 Thread Sam Pawlett
:09:06 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 14:08:41 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Phil Gasper [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Edward Said on NATO bombing Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Protecting the Kosovars By Edward Said ONCE again, and led by the United States as usual, a war is being conducted

[PEN-L:3591] Fwd: Edward Said on Palestinian State

1999-02-19 Thread Gar Lipow
uot;realities" and trying to pass them off as political substance. Arafat and his advisers should be ashamed of themselves for such banal tricks. They should stand aside so that a more serious and credible political process can replace their disastrous fumbling once and for all. Edward S

[PEN-L:1678] Edward Said

1998-12-18 Thread Louis Proyect
Apocalypse Now by Edward Said It would be a mistake, I think, to reduce what is happening between Iraq and the United States simply to an assertion of Arab will and sovereignty on the one hand versus American imperialism, which undoubtedly plays a central role in all this. However misguided

[PEN-L:1716] Re: [DEMSOC-L] Edward Said oniraq Crisis / crucial reading

1998-12-18 Thread Ken Hanly
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Edward Said, the former US AMbassador to Iraq, was interviewed at length on the CBC Newsmagazine last night. His trenchant critique of US policy was contrasted at times by the interviewer's use of standard media terminology to describe Iraq e.g. a rogue state, didn't

[PEN-L:1708] [DEMSOC-L] Edward Said oniraq Crisis / crucial reading

1998-12-18 Thread sokol
From another list Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 19:53:50 -0500 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [DEMSOC-L] Edward Said oniraq Crisis / crucial reading Sender: The Democratic Socialism List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Comments: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED