On Edward Said

Remembrance of Things Past

Hamid Dabashi

• Publisher: Haymarket Books
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781642593914
• Topic: Política y relaciones internacionales
• Subtopic: Colonialismo y poscolonialismo

Edward Said (1935-2003) was a towering figure in post-colonial studies and the struggle for justice in his native Palestine, best known for his critique of orientalism in western portrayals of the Middle East. As a public intellectual, activist, and scholar, Said forever changed how we read the world around us and left an indelible mark on subsequent generations. Hamid Dabashi, himself a leading thinker and critical public voice, offers a unique collection of reminiscences, travelogues and essays that document his own close and long-standing scholarly, personal and political relationship with Said. In the process, they place the enduring significance of Edward Said's legacy in an unfolding context and locate his work within the moral imagination and environment of the time.

INDEX

Abu-Assad, Hany, 4, 79, 83, 106, 108, 120

Dabashi and, 57, 106, 112–15, 117, 118

films, 57, 80, 106 (see also Paradise Now)

Hammouda and, 106, 107, 112–15

In Nablus, 57, 105–7, 112–15

writings, 83

Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse, 133, 139, 144–46, 221

Abu-Manneh, Bashir, 84

Abu-Thuraya, Ibrahim, 204

academic freedom, 151

academic intellectuals, 96, 151.

See also exilic intellectuals; intellectuals

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 74, 75

accented cinema, 84

Adorno, Theodor W., 90, 98–99, 124–25, 163, 218

Afghanistan, 164, 180

Bernard Lewis and, 216

Said and, 186

US invasion of, 135, 164, 180

Afghans, 143, 144, 146

Ahmad, Aijaz, 191

Ahmad, Eqbal, 23, 125

Ahmadinejad

characterizations of, 89, 157, 159–60, 163

criticisms of, 121, 159–60, 163

Mir-Hossein Mousavi and, 157, 160

Said and, 89, 124–25

Slavoj Žižek on, 157, 159–60, 163

and the West, 157, 163

Ajami, Fouad, 123, 129, 132, 180

as comprador intellectual, 129, 149, 150, 152

as native informer, 16, 123

overview, 129

Said and, 123, 149

Al-e-Ahmad, Jalal, 4–6, 89–90

Algeria

colonialism in, 77, 84, 142, 199

Frantz Fanon and, 7, 164

Michael Ignatieff and, 142, 143

Said and, 164

al-Ali, Naji, 80–81, 116n

Amery, Jean, 146

Anidjar, Gil, 37

Anis, Mona, 41

anti-intellectualism, 92, 95, 96, 98

Mark Lilla and, 132–37, 227n12

“reckless minds,” 133,...