Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics.

war against Iraq was a politically ill-conceived military enterprise:

My strong opinion though I don’t have any proof in the classical sense of the word is that they want to change the entire Middle East and the Arab world perhaps terminate some countries destroy the so-called terrorist groups they dislike and install régimes friendly to the United States. –citizen father Wadir Saïd.

S. He proposed and contended that Orientalist scholarship was and remains inextricably tied to the imperialist societies that produced it which makes much of the work inherently political servile to power and therefore intellectually suspect. Edward Wadie Saïd (Arabic pronunciation: [wædiːʕ sæʕiːd] Arabic: إدوارد وديع سعيد‎ Idwārd Wadīʿ Saʿīd; 1 November 1935 – 25 September 2003) was a Palestinian–American literary theoretician University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and a public intellectual who was a founding figure of the critical-theory field of Post-colonialism.