Edward Said

Edward Wadie Said was a PalestinianAmerican literary theoretician, professor of English, history and comparative literature at Columbia University, and a public intellectual who was a founder of postcolonial studies. A Palestinian Arab born in Jerusalem in the days of Mandatory Palestine, Edward W. Said was an American citizen by way of his father, Wadir Said, a U.S. Armyveteran of the First World War having moved from Jerusalem as a young boy, Said would later advocate for the political and human rights of the Palestinian people.

Edward W. Said was born onNovember 1935, to Hilda Said and Wadir Said, a businessman, in Jerusalem in the British Mandate of Palestine. Wadir Said, a native Palestinian, was an Arab Christian man who soldiered in the U.S. Army component of the American Expeditionary Forces , commanded by General John J. Pershing, in the First World War that wartime military service granted Said pre U.S. citizenship to him and to family. His mother Hilda was born to a Lebanese mother and raised in Nazareth.

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