Out of Place: A Memoir

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Pros

Edward said's autobiography narrates the story of every palestinian who displaced after the creation of the state of israel in 1948. Said - a palestinian-american feeling always out of place - had willed that he be buried in dhour shweir in lebanon, p... Read More

Said retrieved an inchoate self from the past and reconstructing the origins from which both men emerged. Revelation of a life-long struggle riding in the ever changing waves of cultural - political, identity-destroying turmoil of his-our time. A sens... Read More

Said revisits some of the countries he lived in and reconstructs events that have touched his life as a child. The story of the mother's search for a passport, a nationality, her dislike of life in america, her eventual death in america are beautifull... Read More

There is a mention of a calculator in cairo in what could be the late 1950's.

He's a funny iconoclast who brilliantly and subversively finds a way to always be in some kind of trouble. His sharp analysis of his own education is generous but never sentimental.

Cons

Said's attack on wiener, of an indirect mccarthyist kind aimed at slurring the institution that employs him, is unworthy of someone who might be expected to exhibit special sensitivity to innuendo aimed at character assassination. He doesn't make it e... Read More

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Quality

- lesson of discipline, talent, articulation, observation and uniqueness in being objective.

It is written with such a talent, such vulnerability and sensitivity, that i was moved and held my breath in many places.

Two points should be made: one is the way he was always characterized by the-powers-that-be in his school as "dishonest" or "in... Read More

Our constitution does make some space for this in separation of powers but it is continually under attack by a growing infantil... Read More

Price

At some cost, said has described a world that was destroyed by clowns like balfour who deliberately oversimplify ethnic situati... Read More

Shipping

Arrived on time at a good price.

Competitiveness

This opportunity presented itself while my husband was on a contract assignment with exxon(we normally reside in delaware).

(fortunately, the israeli press are less corruptible than their american counterparts, and have never ceased to treat said as s... Read More

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Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 19.4% of the reviews are reliable.

This product had a total of 295 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jan 29 2024.