2 CDs Sadly, the last in a series of interviews that David Barsamian did with Edward Said. The interview takes its title and inspiration from a poem by Aime Cesaire, Martinique’s great anti-colonial poet. A wide area comes under Said’s gaze and scrutiny. Among the topics covered are the role of culture in resistance, the […]

Edward Said talks about the Al-Aqsa intifada, the biased U.S. media coverage and how the Holocaust is used as a weapon to intimidate critics of Israeli occupation and annexation policies. He describes the ongoing campaign to prevent him from publicly addressing Middle East issues and the scandalous behavior of the Freud Society of Vienna, which […]

The standard imperial strategies of “divide and rule” and “partition and quit” have had disastrous consequences in Ireland, Palestine and India. The ravages of identity politics and skewed nationalist impulses have further contributed to turmoil and war. Independence for many post-colonial states has meant little more than replacing a foreign system of oppression with a […]

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict appears at once intractable and unsolvable. The cycle of outrages affecting both communities seems endless. The much-vaunted peace process is in shambles. In this program, Edward Said proposes a radical solution that cuts through the current impasse with a promise of reconciliation and peace for both peoples. Recorded at the Association of […]