Lannan Readings & Conversations
Edward Said
with Christopher HitchensWednesday May 2 2001
Edward Said, a renowned cultural and literary critic, was born in Jerusalem, Palestine, and was educated there, in Egypt, and the United States.
His books include Orientalism; The Question of Palestine; Covering Islam; Culture and Imperialism; Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography; Representations of the Intellectual; and The Politics of Dispossession. He has also published a memoir, Out of Place.
Mr. Said is University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
Christopher Hitchens' books include The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice; For the Sake of Argument; and Blood, Class, and Nostalgia. With Edward Said, he has edited Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and The Question of Palestine. Mr. Hitchens received a Lannan Literary Award in 1991.
