“We’d always wanted something like this,” asserts Najla Said. Najla is the daughter and eldest child of the late scholar, intellectual and activist Edward Said, whose 1978 book “Orientalism” — examining the Western world’s skewed perception of the East — is considered a canonical work in the area of post-colonial studies. Born in Palestine and […]
Edward Said’s Daughter Talks Israel-Palestine, Ed Sheeran and Why Bari Weiss Makes Her ‘Blood Boil’
“We’d always wanted something like this,” asserts Najla Said. Najla is the daughter and eldest child of the late scholar, intellectual and activist Edward Said, whose 1978 book “Orientalism” — examining the Western world’s skewed perception of the East —…
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