“Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home.”

About Edward Said

Author • American

Edward Wadie Said was a prominent literary critic, professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and a founding figure of postcolonial theory. His most influential book, "Orientalism" (1978),...