Palestinianism
Adam Shatz, 6 May 2021
Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said
by Timothy Brennan.
Bloomsbury, 437 pp., £20, March 2021,978 1 5266 1465 0 Show More
by Timothy Brennan.
Bloomsbury, 437 pp., £20, March 2021,
“... against the concealment and silence that the loss of Palestine had imposed, and that his father, William Said, had accepted, leaving behind not only the family’s past in Jerusalem but also his Arab name, Wadie. After 1967, Said embraced the Palestinian struggle – an act of ‘affiliation’, as he put it, a commitment based on belief, rather than ... ”