In 1999, Said and Barenboim co-founded the , composed of young Israeli, Palestinian, and Arab musicians | Elsewhere in the musical world, the composer acknowledged the deep influence of Edward Said upon his works; compositionally, Fairouz's First Symphony thematically alludes to the essay "Homage to a Belly-Dancer" 1990 , about , the Egyptian dancer, actress, and political militant; and a piano sonata, titled Reflections on Exile 1984 , which thematically refers to the emotions inherent to being an exile |
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In 1977, he became the Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and subsequently was the Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities; and in 1979 was Visiting Professor of Humanities at Johns Hopkins University | See: The Bible and Zionism: Invented Traditions, Archaeology and Post-colonialism in Palestine—Israel 2007 |
Turner, Bryan S; Rojek, Chris 2001.
Ronald Inden, Imagining India, New York: Oxford UP, 1990 | Said's founding of the group, as well as his other international political activities concerning Palestine, were noticed by the U |
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presidential governments, as actions meant to perpetuate regional political instability in the Middle East | Editorially, Said served as president of the , as editor of the Arab Studies Quarterly in the , on the executive board of , and was a member of the , the , the Council of Foreign Relations, and the |
I think that there has been a tendency in the Middle East [studies] field to adopt the word Orientalism as a generalized swear-word, essentially referring to people who take the "wrong" position on the Arab—Israeli dispute, or to people who are judged "too conservative.
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