Power, Politics and Culture
Interviews with Edward W. Said, 2001
US
512 pages
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✔ Collection of interviews
✔ Palestinian professor in the US
✔ Cultural studies and problems in Palestine
🔽 Review summary 🔽
★★★★★ A Palestinian academic in the US, prof. Said. Many admire and are inspired by his passionate humanism. The second half is about political conversations. Two state solution. Geography rather than history or myth. So we should and can coexist.
🔽 Book review and notes 🔽
Collection of interviews with 2 sections, first focuses on arts and culture, about literature, music or arts, then the second is more political.
I must be honest, the first part was difficult as I have little knowledge in the field, but the second part is something very, very real to us, who doesn't see what's going on in Gaza?
"They can't possibly eliminate us all" - what he and many thought impossible is happening today.
Genocide of Palestinians was out of question for anyone with common sense, yet, it's happening.
He calls himself an incurable optimist.
Some consider him an enemy or a terrorist.
Many admire and are inspired by his passionate humanism.
He was not an advocate for Islam, and was not rejecting the right of Jews.
What is clear and consistent is that he was interested in coexistence of contradictories, he detested the idea of "pure" he dismissed the myth and focused on the lives of people now.
Geography rather than history or myth. Two state solution.
He knows that people are more complicated than we seem, exactly as he argues in Orientalism where the Other is depicted in a simplified way, that is simply not true.
No, we are human, we live, we are complicated, and we must try.
The curse of the powerful U.S. is that it hates to admit the mistakes and misunderstanding of the past.
Rather than admitting their error they keep on depicting Arab as terrorist, probably as long as they physically can, because, as we all know, it brings a lot of money to a few in the US.
It's been more than 20 years since his death, since we lost the lighthouse of compassion and common sense.
He said, "Israel can't keep on kicking us, they have to admit we exist, not like they can kill off all Palestinians", well, the unimaginable is happening in front of our eyes.
Can't we hear the voices of calm and humane intellectuals any more?
Of common sense?
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