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description: "The critic who rewrote how the West sees the East. Orientalism, his 1978 book, argued that centuries of Western scholarship and art didn't just describe the Middle East and Asia—they invented them, turning living societies into exotic fantasies that justified empire."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Jerusalem in 1935, Said was a U.S. citizen through his father's military service, but the 1948 war sent the family to Egypt and eventually America. He moved through Victoria College in Cairo and prep school in Massachusetts before Princeton and a Harvard doctorate in English literature. At Columbia from 1963 until his death, he became a founder of post-colonial studies, drawing on Gramsci, Fanon, and Foucault to build a model of textual analysis that changed how scholars read power and culture. He joined the Palestinian National Council and pushed for a two-state solution with the right of return, then quit in 1993 over the Oslo Accords; by 1999 he'd shifted to arguing only one binational state could hold. He lectured at more than 200 universities and defined his work as the intellectual's duty: to sift, judge, criticize, so that choice returns to the individual. He died in September 2003.