I just placed this book in my queue. I am curious since I am reading the history on Palestine, Israel and so on and It is filled with beautiful people who cultivated this multifaceted culture. A cool term I read was, "harmonious cohabitation" and I like that term. The history of Palestinian and Jewish people is over four thousand years old and very complex "I ordered the digging of the canal from a river called Nile which flows in Egypt to the Sea which begins in Persia. Afterwards this canal was dug just as I ordered and ships passed through this canal from Egypt to Persia as I had wished"

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A true man of letters

Thankyou for putting up this lecture

One word, Brilliant!! An infallible analyst.

Currently struggling to read his CULTURE & IMPERIALISMS. This talk helps me feel I am understanding as I go.

Spectacular. ❤

BRILLIANCE! SCINTILLATING BRILLIANCE! Edward Said was a gift to us. All communities and all persons on the face of this earth (no matter the size, minorities and majorities alike) must learn from this great man, lest it is perpetual folly they desire; confined and imprisoned in constructed realities, for people in every community strive to be more superior than every other - every culture, every race, every ethnicity, every tradition, every rite, every ritual (as Nehru once pointed out) Edward Said is urging you to liberate yourself, and thus liberate every human being from this perpetual illusion we often fail to see as a vicious cycle, a mental deformity, a sickness of the soul. What a beautiful man, and what a brilliant mind! My favourite thinker, intellectual, humanitarian, scholar, author, and person from the 20th century. I miss you, Edward.

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Consider how imperialistic thinking affects the imperialists. The foot soldiers have to be dumb enough to be pawns. What do we hear about Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations? The Invisible Hand has us all by the throat. But Smith actually wrote 'education' EIGHTY TIMES and 'Invisible Hand' only once. Wealth of Nations is in Project Gutenberg now, you can download it and search it for yourself. The imperialists are lying to us and their own lower classes. In 1776 50% of Brits were illiterate but Adam Smith wrote "read, write and account" multiple times. Notice the "and account" that is never mentioned. Double entry accounting was 300 years old when Smith wrote Wealth of Nations. The United States could have made accounting/finance mandatory in the schools since Sputnik. Has any Western nation done that? But now we have a world of planned obsolescence and consumer technologies that Smith and Marx never imagined. The imperialists say nothing about the depreciation of all of this consumer trash. How much CO2 in atmosphere is the result of unnecessary manufacturing due to planned obsolescence?

Glorious, entirely ~ thank you for posting 👏 🇬🇧

Young Salman Rushdie discussing issues of global importance with Edward Said the great !

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I dont need to listen more. He just said, no empire in history was so unequal, as the western one. The usal communist ly about history.

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RIP 🙏 Edward

Brilliant ! What he says and how he explains the massively detrimental effect of Orientalism and Western Chauvanism. However, little or never he spoke of similar inequalities and unfair practices which exist within each region of the vast Orient .. be it Iran or India or Far East etc etc.

Can i find it as pdf

This is a great lecture, can I know where and when it was done?

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Said's book's relevance is too much

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its a great talk proffessor edward