Shaping the world in which we live...

Late professor Edward Said (born in Jerusalem (then in the British Mandate of Palestine) on November 1, 1935) was one of the most significant public intellectuals of our time. (AFP photo)

 "No concept was more central to Said's thought than that of agency and intentionality. In championing secularism as an ethical model for intellectual activity, Said was emphasizing agency and the essential question of intention and affiliation. Intellectuals must not be detached "professionals," hiding behind academic method and intellectual rigor to avoid responsibility and decline solidarity with constituencies that shape the world in which we live." Hussein Ibish

What Edward Really Said

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