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EDWARD SAID
(1935–2003), was one of the most influential thinkers of the last hundred years. A Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, he wrote brilliantly on topics as wide-ranging as literature, secularism, classical music, and the politics of the Middle East. Said’s 1978 study Orientalism remains one of the central texts of postcolonial theory. Among other of his highly acclaimed works are The Question of Palestine, Culture and Imperialism, Representations of the Intellectual, and Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain.