Edward Said — Palestinian Writer born on November 01, 1935, died on September 24, 2003

Edward Wadie Said was a literary theoretician, professor of English, historian and comparative literature at Columbia University, and a public intellectual who was a founder of Post-colonialism. Edward W. Said was a Palestinian Arab born in the Jerusalem city of Mandatory Palestine, and was an American citizen by way of his father, Wadir Said, a U.S. Army-veteran of the First World War; as such, Said publicly advocated for the political and human rights of the Palestinian nation... (wikipedia)