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El autor dibuja en este libro su condición de árabe en el mundo occidental. El testimonio de su vida lo vemos artísticamente representado. Se trata de un excelente compendio de memorias que nos entretiene y conmueve. Aquí se observa la valentía y enteraza con que el protagonista asume su dilema personal, al confrontarse con todas las piezas que estructuran su pasado, incluidas las complejas relaciones de familia. La historia será, por lo tanto, totalmente autobiográfica. Su autor se encuentra a sí mismo en el camino de la recapitulación histórica más descarnada y honesta. Se trata de un conocido ensayista palestino nacido cerca de Jerusalén, y conectado con vivencias muy cercanas sobre el área, porque su infancia transcurrió entre Egipto, Palestina y el Líbano. Su enfoque pretende revisar muy críticamente las relaciones turbulentas y muchas veces abiertamente confrontacionales que se establecen entre dos grandes mundos: Occidente y Oriente. El libro defiende la imagen más pura y humana de una civilización que por sus particularidades culturales resulta muchas veces incomprendida.

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Born in Jerusalem and educated at Victoria College in Cairo and at Princeton and Harvard universities, Edward Said has taught at Columbia University since 1963 and has been a visiting professor at Harvard and Johns Hopkins University. He has had an unusual dual career as a professor of comparative literature, a recognized expert on the novelist and short story writer Joseph Conrad, (see Vol. 1) and as one of the most significant contemporary writers on the Middle East, especially the Palestinian question and the plight of Palestinians living in the occupied territories. Although he is not a trained historian, his Orientalism (1978) is one of the most stimulating critical evaluations of traditional Western writing on Middle Eastern history, societies, and literature. In the controversial Covering Islam (1981), he examined how the Western media have biased Western perspectives on the Middle East. A Palestinian by birth, Said has sought to show how Palestinian history differs from the rest of Arabic history because of the encounter with Jewish settlers and to present to Western readers a more broadly representative Palestinian position than they usually obtain from Western sources. Said is presently Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia, editor of Arab Studies Quarterly, and chair of the board of trustees of the Institute of Arab Studies. He is a member of the Palestinian National Council as well as the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. (Bowker Author Biography)