Edward Said a Palestinian Writer and Philosopher was a resident of Dhour El Choueir.
The concept of imagined geographies has evolved out of the work of Edward Said, particularly his critique on Orientalism.
His final film, Out of Place: Memories of Edward Said (2005), was named Best Documentary at the 2006 Mainichi Film Awards.
Edward Said and Noam Chomsky are among the critics that he quotes the most heavily.
The Clash of Ignorance refers to a theory developed by Columbia University professor Edward Said.
As criticized by Edward Said in his famous work Orientalism, the literature of tropical geography, like writings on the Orient, served the interests of European scholars who were living in the temperate world to create an exotic other which in turn helped define themselves.
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He co-founded the Palestinian National Initiative in 2002 along with Edward Said, Mustafa Barghouti and Ibrahim Dakkak as a national platform for combining the struggle for national liberation and the return of refugees with the values of national unity, democracy and social justice.
This institute, starting as a subsidiary arm to the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature of University of Tehran just a few years ago, is now a full-fledged independent center essentially concerned with post-colonial studies with a particular concentration on the critique of Orientalism, as promoted by such figures as Edward Said, Ziauddin Sardar, and Bill Ashcroft.
Over the years the building has been home to such notable faculty members as philosophers John Dewey, Frederick J. E. Woodbridge and Ernest Nagel, Guadeloupean novelist Maryse Condé, French literary scholar Michael Riffaterre, poet Kenneth Koch and English literary scholars Lionel Trilling, Edward Said, Carolyn Heilbrun, Quentin Anderson, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Mark Van Doren.