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Edward Said Dies I Am At Conference And

Juan Cole 09/26/2003

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Edward Said Dies

I am at a conference and cannot make a long entry today, but wanted to express my condolences to the family and friends of Edward Said, among the greatest scholars of the twentieth century. A Palestinian-American intellectual who illuminated for us everything from Joseph Conrad’s fiction to the impact of empire on the British novel, to the rhetoric of Orientalism as a racist enterprise. Edward was controversial, but he was always true to his calling as a progressive. His death diminishes us all. But the cosmic balance is such that his life enriched us even more.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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