Remembering Edward W. Said (part 1)

Edward Said's Legacy
by Professor Andrew Rubin.

Prof. Andrew N. Rubin was the last doctoral student of Said's and worked as his research assistant from 1995-2002. Said died in September 2003, while Rubin was in a coma from a catastrophic injury. These are Rubin's first public remarks that delivered after his recovery. The memorial was held in Washington, DC, in June 2004 at Reverend Walter Fauntroy's New Bethel Baptist Church, where Fauntroy, King, and other organized the March on Washington in 1963.

Rubin's discussion of Palestine and South Africa were part of his recognition of Fauntroy's achievements as a civil rights leader and a major force in the anti-apartheid movements. Ralph Nader, Danny Glover were in attendance at this memorial service.

Several months after his return to public life, Rubin resumed teaching at Georgetown University in the Fall of 2004, where he is a professor of English. He has written and spoken widely on Said's work.

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Education

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• Edward Said
• Palestine
• South Africa
• Orientalism
• Andrew Rubin

[vivascargill]

The true heroes are the Palestinian people!! Or one could say Mahmoud Darwish

But whatever mistakes he made I remember Abu Amar staying in Lebanon until the last moment that is greatness! --I did not like Edward's essays on Conrad and Austen--he was a patriot true, but the heroes are the Palestinian people ordinary people we learned that in SNCC--Edward was a good musician but it is dangerous to idolize "great men" --ordinary people are heroes people whose names we do not know.

[postpoetics]

moving and eloquent eulogy of Said!