Revising Culture, Reinventing Peace: The Influence of Edward W. Said

Throughout the last quarter of the twentieth century, Columbia University professor Edward W. Said's work has been recognized as a major influence on literature, cultural studies, and Palestinian nationalism. President of the Modern Language Association, pianist, and confidant to world leaders, he is the author of seventeen books, including the seminal Orientalism, which has shaped and reshaped academic disciplines and political movements, spanning continents and linking formerly disparate intellectual pursuits.