Edward W. Said is University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the
author of many works, including Culture and Imperialism and Orientalism, as well as Musical Elaborations and Beginnings:
Intention and Method, both published by Columbia.
Review
"Said writes to the photos so assiduously and with such effect as to make one powerful essay."
--New York Times Book Review
"A very personal text, and a very moving one, about an internal struggle: the anguish of living with displacement,
with exile. . . . The most beautiful piece of prose . . . about what it means to be a Palestinian."
--The Guardian
"When Said shows us the Palestinian experience min al-dakhil, from the inside, he means not the inside of
the place, but the inside of the mind. Palestine becomes a state of mind. And that is what makes the book so exceptional.
It is an extended voyage through the mind of exile."
--The Nation
"The power and magic of [Said and Mohr's] collective statement lies in thisno matter how displaced
or dispossessed, a decisive border separates the native and the tourist."
--Jerusalem Post
Columbia University Press Web Site, July, 2002
Summary
A searing portrait of Palestinian life and identity that is at once an exploration of Edward Said's dislocated
past and a testimony to the lives of those living in exile.
