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List Of Edward Said Memorial Lectures
Since Edward Said's death in 2003, several institutions have instituted annual lecture series in his memory, including Columbia University, University of Warwick, Princeton University, University of Adelaide, The American University in Cairo, London Review of Books, the Barenboim-Said Akademie and Palestine Center, with such notables speaking as Daniel Barenboim, Noam Chomsky, Robert Fisk, Marina Warner and Cornel West. Columbia University * 2005 Daniel Barenboim: Wagner, Israel and Palestine * 2006 Frank Kermode: Living On the Hyphen: Yeats, Anglo-Irish Poet * 2007 David Bromwich: Moral Imagination * 2008 Adonis: A Reading and a Recital * 2009 Noam Chomsky: The Unipolar Moment and the Culture of Imperialism * 2011 Ahdaf Soueif: Notes from the Egyptian Revolution * 2012 W. J. T. Mitchell: Seeing Madness: Insanity, Media, and Visual Culture *2013 Raja Shehadeh: Is There a Language of Peace? Palestine Today and the Categorization of Domination * 2014 Richard Falk: The Palestinian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Said
Edward Wadie Said (; , ; 1 November 1935 – 24 September 2003) was a Palestinian-American professor of literature at Columbia University, a public intellectual, and a founder of the academic field of postcolonial studies.Robert Young, ''White Mythologies: Writing History and the West'', New York & London: Routledge, 1990. Born in Mandatory Palestine, he was a citizen of the United States by way of his father, a U.S. Army veteran. Educated in the Western canon at British and American schools, Said applied his education and bi-cultural perspective to illuminating the gaps of cultural and political understanding between the Western world and the Eastern world, especially about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in the Middle East; his principal influences were Antonio Gramsci, Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, Michel Foucault, and Theodor Adorno. As a cultural critic, Said is known for the book ''Orientalism'' (1978), a critique of the cultural representations that are the bases o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahdaf Soueif
Ahdaf Soueif ( ar, أهداف سويف; born 23 March 1950) is an Egyptian novelist and political and cultural commentator. Early life Soueif was born in Cairo, where she lives, and was educated in Egypt and England. She studied for a PhD in linguistics at the University of Lancaster, completing the degree in 1979."Ahdaf Soueif" in ''Contemporary Authors Online''. Gale. 11 November 2003. Her sister is the human and women's rights activist and mathematician Laila Soueif. Career Her debut novel, ''In the Eye of the Sun'' (1993), set in Egypt and England, recounts the maturing of Asya, a beautiful Egyptian woman who, by her own admission, "feels more comfortable with art than with life." Soueif's second novel, ''The Map of Love'' (1999), was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, has been translated into 21 languages and sold more than a million copies. She has also published two works of short stories, ''Aisha'' (1983) and ''Sandpiper'' (1996) – a selection from which was combined in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karima Bennoune
Karima Bennoune is an Algerian-American who is the Homer G. Angelo and Ann Berryhill Endowed Chair in International Law and Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at the UC Davis School of Law. She was also United Nations Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights from October 2015 to October 2021. Education *J.D., University of Michigan Law School The University of Michigan Law School (Michigan Law) is the law school of the University of Michigan, a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Founded in 1859, the school offers Master of Laws (LLM), Master of Comparative Law (MCL ... 1994 *M.A. Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School 1994 *Graduate Certificate, Women's Studies, University of Michigan 1994 *B.A. History and Semiotics, Brown University 1988 Career Before coming to UC Davis, Bennoune was a Professor of Law and Arthur L. Dickson Scholar at Rutgers School of Law – Newark. She won the Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilan Pappe
Ilan may refer to: Organization *ILAN, Israeli umbrella organization for the treatment of disabled children Given name *Ilan (name), a Hebrew/Israeli name * Ilan Bakhar, a retired Israeli footballer *Ilan Araújo Dall'Igna, a Brazilian footballer *Ilan Gilon, an Israeli politician *Ilan Halevi, a Jewish-Palestinian journalist and politician *Ilan Pappé, an Israeli historian and socialist *Ilan Ramon, an Israeli fighter pilot in the Israeli Air Force and first Israeli astronaut *Ilan Shalgi, an Israeli lawyer *Ilan Volkov, an Israeli orchestral conductor Surname * Meir Bar-Ilan, Orthodox rabbi and leader of Religious Zionism *Menachem Ilan (born 1960), Israeli Olympic sport shooter *Uri Ilan, Israeli soldier who committed suicide in a Syrian prison Places *Bar-Ilan University, a university in Ramat Gan, Israel *Neve Ilan, a moshav shitufi in central Israel, west of Jerusalem *Ilan (county) (Yilan), a county in Taiwan *Ilan (city) (Yilan), capital of the county of Ilan (Yilan) in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Cleary (academic)
Joseph Christopher Cleary (December 3, 1918 – June 3, 2004), nicknamed "Fire", was a Major League Baseball pitcher for one game in 1945. The right-hander was born in Cork, and he was the last native of Ireland to appear in a major league game until P. J. Conlon debuted for the New York Mets on May 7, 2018. He also holds the major league record for the highest ERA of any pitcher who retired a batter. Major League career Cleary pitched one game in relief for the Washington Senators on August 4, 1945. In the 4th inning of game 2 of a doubleheader against the Boston Red Sox, he gave up 8 baserunners (5 hits and 3 walks) and 7 earned runs in just of an inning. The only out that he recorded was a strikeout of opposing pitcher Dave Ferriss. In Cleary's short MLB career he had a 0–0 record with 1 strikeout and an ERA of 189.00. Personal life Joe Cleary was born in 1918 in Cork, Ireland and moved to the Upper West Side of New York City in 1928. Cleary attended Commerce High ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samir Amin
Samir Amin ( ar, سمير أمين) (3 September 1931 – 12 August 2018) was an Egyptian-French Marxian economist, political scientist and world-systems analyst. He is noted for his introduction of the term Eurocentrism in 1988 and considered a pioneer of Dependency Theory. Biography Amin was born in Cairo, the son of a French mother and an Egyptian father (both medical doctors). He spent his childhood and youth in Port Said; there he attended a French high school, leaving in 1947 with a Baccalauréat. It was at high school that Amin was first politicized when, during the Second World War, Egyptian students were split between communists and nationalists; Amin belonged to the former group. By then Amin had already adopted a resolute stance against fascism and Nazism. While the upheaval against British domination in Egypt informed his politics, he rejected the idea that the enemy of their enemy, Nazi Germany, was the Egyptians' friend. In 1947 Amin left for Paris where he obta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benita Parry
Benita may refer to: *Benita (novel), a 1906 novel by H. Rider Haggard Given name *Benita Haastrup Benita Haastrup (born 1964) is a drummer, percussionist, educator and composer in Denmark. She studied at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen, graduating in 1992. In 1998, she received the Ben Webster Prize. Haastrup has been a member ... (born 1964), Danish jazz drummer * Benita Sanders (born 1935), Canadian printmaker {{dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mourid Barghouti
Mourid Barghouti ( ar, مريد البرغوثي, ; 8 July 1944 – 14 February 2021) was a Palestinian poet and writer. Biography Barghouti was born in Deir Ghassana, near Ramallah, on the West Bank, in 8 July 1944. He studied English literature at Cairo University, graduating in 1967, though he was exiled from Egypt in 1977. The Oslo Accords finally allowed Barghouti to return to the West Bank, and in 1996 he returned to Ramallah after 30 years of exile. This event inspired his autobiographical novel ''Ra'aytu Ram Allah'' ('' I Saw Ramallah''), published by Dar Al Hilal (Cairo, 1997), which won him the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in the same year. A follow-up, ''I Was Born There, I Was Born Here'' was written when he and his son, Tamim, made a visit to the city. In an interview with Maya Jaggi in ''The Guardian'', Barghouti was quoted as saying: "I learn from trees. Just as many fruits drop before they're ripe, when I write a poem I treat it with healthy cruelty, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eyal Weizman
Eyal Weizman MBE FBA (born 1970) is a British Israeli architect. He is the director of the research agency Forensic Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London where he is Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures and a founding director there of the Centre for Research Architecture at the department of Visual Cultures. In 2019 he was elected Fellow of the British Academy. Biography Eyal Weizman was born in Haifa, Israel. He studied architecture at the Architectural Association in London, and completed his PhD at the London Consortium. Architecture career In 2007 he was a founding member of the architectural collective Decolonizing Architecture (DAAR) in Beit Sahour in the West Bank, Palestinian territories. Weizman has been a professor of architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and has also taught at The Bartlett (UCL) in London at the Städelschule in Frankfurt. He lectured, curated and organised conferences in many institutions worldwide. Weizman's most know ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilbert Achcar
Gilbert Achcar ( ar, جلبير الأشقر; 5 November 1951) is a Lebanese socialist academic and writer. He is a Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London. His research interests cover the Near East and North Africa, the foreign policy of the United States, Globalization, Islam, and Islamic fundamentalism. He is also a Fellow at the International Institute for Research and Education. Career Born in Senegal, Achcar was raised in Lebanon where he obtained degrees in philosophy and the social sciences at the Lebanese University and was a member of the Revolutionary Communist Group. He took up residence in France in 1983, and completed his doctorate in social history and international relations at the University of Paris VIII, where, in 1991, he began teaching political science, sociology and international relations. In 2003 he took up a research position at the Marc Bloch Centre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tariq Ali
Tariq Ali (; born 21 October 1943) is a Pakistani-British political activist, writer, journalist, historian, filmmaker, and public intellectual. He is a member of the editorial committee of the ''New Left Review'' and ''Sin Permiso'', and contributes to ''The Guardian'', ''CounterPunch'', and the ''London Review of Books''. He read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Exeter College, Oxford. He is the author of many books, including ''Pakistan: Military Rule or People's Power'' (1970), ''Can Pakistan Survive? The Death of a State'' (1983), ''Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity'' (2002), ''Bush in Babylon'' (2003), ''Conversations with Edward Said'' (2005), ''Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis Of Hope'' (2006), ''A Banker for All Seasons'' (2007), ''The Duel'' (2008), ''The Obama Syndrome'' (2010), and '' The Extreme Centre: A Warning'' (2015). Early life Ali was born and raised in Lahore, Punjab in British India (later part of Pakistan). He is the son of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Hall
Catherine Hall (born 1946) is a British academic. She is Emerita Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History at University College London and chair of its digital scholarship project, the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery. Her work as a feminist historian focuses on the 18th and 19th centuries, and the themes of gender, class, race and empire. Early life and education Catherine Barrett (later Hall) was born in 1946 in Kettering, Northamptonshire. Her father, John Barrett, was a Baptist minister, while her mother, Gladys came from a family of millers. Her parents met at Oxford University, where Gladys was studying history. When Catherine was three, the family moved to Leeds, Yorkshire, and she grew up there in a non-conformist household; both parents were "radical Labour". She went to grammar school, where she says she had an excellent education. She then attended the University of Sussex at Falmer, but was living between Brighton and London, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
