[Reader-list] Webcast of Edward Said lecture in berkeley

[Coffin Capital]

Thanks for that.

Readers may also be interested in a webcast of one of his last major
addresses (June 2003) at
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/1533258.  Both audio or
video streams are available, and the site includes a transcript of the
speech.  Here's the website description, fyi - 


"Professor Edward Said: Scholar, Activist, Palestinian 
1935 - 2003

Renowned scholar, activist and intellectual, Professor Edward W. Said, 67,
died Thursday morning after a decade-long battle with leukemia. His death
comes just days before the third anniversary of the Palestinian Intifada, or
uprising. He had been diagnosed with cancer during the Persian Gulf War. The
past decade he fought tirelessly against both the cancer and the war.  Said,
a Palestinian-American, was known throughout the world as a leading thinker,
and there are few fields of intellectual endeavor that have been untouched
by his contributions. 

He was a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia
University and the author of over a dozen books, including Peace and its
Discontents: Essays on Palestine in the Middle East Peace Process, Culture
and Imperialism and Orientalism. His writings have been translated into 26
languages. He was a frequent guest on Democracy Now! and other Pacifica
programs and a great fighter for voiceless victims around the world.
[Includes transcript] 

Said was born in Jerusalem on November 1, 1935, when it was under British
control. He grew up in Cairo. At the age of 17, he was sent to the United
States as a student. He received a bachelor's degree from Princeton in 1957
and a master's and Ph.D. from Harvard, in 1960 and 1964. 

The 1967 Arab-Israeli war stirred him to political activism. When Israeli
Prime Minister Golda Meir infamously declared in 1969, "There are no
Palestinians," Said decided to take on "the slightly preposterous challenge
of disproving her, of beginning to articulate a history of loss and
dispossession that had to be extricated, minute by minute, word by word,
inch by inch." 

He was an eloquent voice for justice throughout the Palestinian struggle and
noted as one of the foremost intellectuals on the Middle East and
colonialism. 

Because of his advocacy for Palestinian self-determination and his
membership in the Palestine National Council, Said was not allowed by Israel
to visit Palestine until several years ago. 

A prolific scholar and intellectual, Said was also an acomplished concert
pianist and music critic and was fluent in Arabic and French. 

Today we spend the hour listening to Edward Said in his own words. We play a
speech he gave on June 15, at the American Arab Anti-Discrimination
Committee's annual conference. It was one of his last major addresses. 

 - David Barsamian, director of Alternative Radio. He is the author of
Culture and Resistance: Conversations With Edward W. Said and The Pen and
the Sword. 
 - Edward Said, speaking at the American Arab Anti-Discrimination
Committee's annual conference on June 15, 2003."


-----Original Message-----
From: reader-list-bounces at mail.sarai.net
[mailto:reader-list-bounces at mail.sarai.net] On Behalf Of Harsh Kapoor
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:08 PM
To: reader-list at sarai.net
Subject: [Reader-list] Webcast of Edward Said lecture in berkeley
Importance: High


Professor Edward Said: "Memory, Inequality and Power: Palestine and the
Universality of Human Rights" Webcast of  this recent lecture in Berkeley,
dated February 19, 2003 
is available for all :
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/events/details.html?event_id=46
_________________________________________
reader-list: an open discussion list on media and the city. Critiques &
Collaborations To subscribe: send an email to reader-list-request at sarai.net
with subscribe in the subject header. List archive:
<https://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/>