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Culture and Resistance
Conversations with Edward W. Said
David Barsamian and Edward W. Said
Pages: 224ISBN: 0-89608-670-4
Format: paper
Release Date: 2003-06-01
This book is also available in cloth
"[C]ulture is a way of fighting against extinction and obliteration," says renowned cultural and literary critic Edward W. Said. In this book of interviews he discusses the centrality of popular resistance to his understanding of culture, history, and social change, in particular the Palestinian struggle for recognition and justice.
In conversations with David Barsamian, Said offers with passion and energy his thoughts on topics ranging from the war on terrorism, the war against Iraq, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to contemporary Palestinian poetry. Culture and Resistance lays out Edward W. Said's compelling vision for a secular, democratic future in the Middle East—and the world.
Talking on the Al-Aqsa Intifada, Said proposes a radical solution that cuts through the current impasse with a promise of reconciliation and peace for both peoples. He addresses the origins of the Palestinian revolt, the collapse of the highly praised peace process, and whether the mainstream media in this country can be trusted to provide explanations. He also describes the ongoing campaign to prevent him from publicly addressing Middle East issues. Of the scandalous behavior of the Freud Society of Vienna, which canceled an invitation for him to speak, he says, “What they want is my silence, and as long as I’m alive, it’s not going to happen.”
Includes 13 maps detailing the geographic history of Israel and Palestine
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Table of Contents
Introduction
by David Barsamian
1 A One-State Solution (KGNU, Boulder, Colorado, February 8, 1999)
2 Intifada 2000: The Palestinian Uprising (New York, New York, November
9, 2000)
3 What They Want Is My Silence (Santa Fe, New Mexico, May 2, 2001)
4 Origins of Terrorism (KGNU, Boulder, Colorado, September 24, 2001)
5 A Palestinian Perspective on the Conflict with Israel (KGNU, Boulder,
Colorado, August 15, 2002)
6 At the Rendezvous of Victory (New York, New York, February 25,
2003)
David Barsamian
Click here to view David Barsamian's full Author PageDavid Barsamian is founder and director of Alternative Radio, the independent award-winning weekly series based in Boulder, Colorado. He is a radio producer, journalist, author, and lecturer. He has been working in radio since 1978. His interviews and articles appear regularly in The Progressive and Z Magazine. He is the author of several books, including Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky; Eqbal Ahmad: Confronting Empire and The Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting.
His recent books with South End Press are The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy, and Louder Than Bombs: Interviews from The Progressive Magazine.
The Institute for Alternative Journalism named him one of its “Top Ten Media Heroes.” Barsamian lectures on U.S. foreign policy, the media, propaganda, and corporate power in the U.S., Canada, Brazil, India and Europe. He is the winner of the ACLU's 2003 Upton Sinclair Award for independent journalism.