Edward Said

Professor of literature and a public intellectual.

Born November 1st, 1935 in Jerusalem. [ref]

Died November 25th, 2003 at 68 years old in New York City (leukemia). [ref]

Occupations
journalist, literary critic, musicologist, philosopher, political scientist, writer
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. Oscar Wilde