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Edward Wadie Said (1935‐2003) was born a Christian Palestinian Arab, but attended British schools in Jerusalem and Alexandria. Expelled from the latter, he was moved to a prep school in Massachusetts, his father having won US citizenship through service with American forces in the First World War. There he excelled, later attending Princeton, followed by postgraduate studies at Harvard. For 40 years thereafter he worked in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, later becoming a visiting professor at many prestigious North American universities, and a Reith Lecturer for the BBC. A gifted pianist himself, Said wrote on music too,...