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Culture and Resistance | Praise
“Barsamian’s perceptive questions and Said’s hard-hitting answers
are the ideal combination for an indispensable and much needed book that places
Palestinian resistance to an illegal occupation in the context of culture and
social change. Said takes the reader across an intellectual and personal journey
shedding so much light on some of the major contemporary issues in the Middle
East-from his friendship with the noted musician, Daniel Barenboim, to his battle
against cancer, his refusal to be silenced, his co-existence between two worlds,
the ‘generous offer,’ the Intifada, and the factors that shape American
foreign policy. The role which culture plays in resistance movements, be that
the theatre, cinema, literature, poetry, identity, a ‘form of memory against
defacement,’ constitute the essence of this book, which no student of the
contemporary Middle East can afford to miss.”
—Naseer H. Aruri, author of Dishonest Broker: The U.S. Role in Israel
and Palestine
“[Said is] one of the most influential literary and cultural critics in
the world.”
—New York Times
“David Barsamian is the Studs Terkel of our generation.”
—Howard Zinn
"These interviews display Said's relentlessly historicist mode of analysis—a valuable demonstration of method for those learning about his work."
—James Hamilton, Media, Culture, and Society
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