Said: 158 books
Parallels and Paradoxes
Explorations in Music and Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
These free-wheeling, often exhilarating dialogues—which grew out of the acclaimed Carnegie Hall Talks—are an exchange between two of the most prominent figures in contemporary culture: Daniel Barenboim, internationally renowned conductor and pianist, and Edward W. Said, eminent literary critic...
by Edward W. Said
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In his final book, completed just before his death, Edward W. Said offers impassioned pleas for the beleaguered Palestinian cause from one of its most eloquent spokesmen. These essays, which originally appeared in Cairo’s Al-Ahram Weekly, London’s Al-Hayat, and the London Review of Books, take...
Palestine and the Gulf States
The Presence at the Table
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
This final book from Rosemarie Said Zahlan, renowned scholar of Middle East Politics and History, explores the relationships between Palestine and the Gulf since the 1930s. These relationships have ebbed and flowed, crisscrossed barriers and events, and taken on different forms. They have pervaded...
by SAID
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
SAID’s 99 Psalms are poems of praise and lament, of questioning and wondering. In the tradition of the Hebrew psalmist, they find their voice in exile, in this case one that is both existential and geographical. His decision to include 99 in this collection recalls the ancient Muslim tradition that...
Memenomics
The Next Generation Economic System
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
MEMEnomics -- \MEE – MEH –nomics\ -noun A new branch of social science that studies patterns of economic policies and practices by taking an integral, whole-systems approach to economic sustainability. The term “vMEME” (the superscript “v” is for “value”) refers to a core value system...
by Edward W. Said
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Una historia extraordinaria sobre el exilio narrada por uno de los intelectuales más importantes de nuestro tiempo.
En Fuera de lugar Edward W. Said ofrece un fascinante relato del desarrollo vital de un crítico y pensador a caballo entre Oriente y Occidente. Fuera de lugar no es solamente...
The BeatTips Manual
The Art of Beatmaking, The Hip Hop/Rap Music Tradition, and The Common Composer
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2013
'The BeatTips Manual' (Amir Said) is the definitive study of the art of beatmaking (hip hop production). Brilliantly divided into five major parts - a riveting History part, an extensive Instruction (how-to) part, an insightful Interviews part, which features exclusive interviews with DJ Premier, DJ...
Brand Revolution
Ousting Old Mideast Trading Mindsets
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Revolutions continue to proliferate throughout the developing world, especially in the Middle East. But did you know that marketing plays a role in the unrest?
Brand revolution doesnt automatically lead to the overthrow of a dictator, but the way we market goods and services can play an important...
Covering Islam
How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
In this classic work, now updated, the author of Culture and Imperialism reveals the hidden agendas and distortions of fact that underlie even the most "objective" coverage of the Islamic world.
From the Iranian hostage crisis through the Gulf War and the bombing of the World Trade...
by Edward W. Said
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
A landmark work from the author of Orientalism that explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it.
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as the Western powers built empires that stretched from...
by Yazeed Said
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Imam Abü Hamid al-Ghazalı is perhaps the most celebrated Muslim theologian of medieval Islam yet little attention has been paid to his personal theology. This book sets out to investigate the relationship between law and politics in the writings of Ghazalı and aims to establish the extent to which...
Peace And Its Discontents
Essays on Palestine in the Middle East Peace Process
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
In works such as Culture and Imperialism, Said has compelled us to question our culture's most privileged myths. Now with this impassioned and incisive book, our foremost Palestinian-American intellectual challenges the official version of the Middle East "peace process." "He challenges and stimulates our thinking in every area."-- Washington Post Book World.
by Edward W. Said
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
This original and deeply provocative book was the first to make Palestine the subject of a serious debate--one that remains as critical as ever. With the rigorous scholarship he brought to his influential Orientalism and an exile's passion (he is Palestinian by birth), Edward W. Said traces the fatal...
The Emergence of Islam
Classical Tradtion in Contemporary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
This brief survey text tells the story of Islam. Gabriel Said Reynolds organizes his study in three parts in order to tell of Muhammad’s early life and rise to power, of the origins and development of the Qur’an, with a distinctive, if unique, juxtaposition between the Qur’an and biblical literature,...