In defense of Edward Said, authored by Fakhri Saleh

The Zionist media in America, and some newspapers and magazines sympathetic to the Zionist right in America and Britain, launched successive campaigns against Edward Said. After describing him more than ten years ago, in Commentary magazine, as "Professor of Terrorism," the same magazine published an additional article by a Jewish American lawyer named Justus Ried Fainer, accusing Edward Said of falsifying his autobiography and fabricating his story, and claiming he should not call himself a refugee. The "Daily Telegraph" also adopted a wide campaign against Edward Said. Furthermore, when Edward Said's autobiographical book "Out of Place" was published, it became clear that the fuss stirred by Fainer was a storm in a teacup, primarily political in nature, coinciding with some of the final settlement claims regarding the Palestinian issue, and aimed at discrediting the Palestinian narrative about the occupation that built the State of Israel on the ruins of the Palestinian people, land, and rights. Edward Said was an appropriate victim because he was a brilliant thinker, critic, and academic in America and the West, and at the same time a firm defender of Palestinian rights in the press, academic circles, and on television screens in America and around the world. In this book, Fakhri Saleh addresses the falsehoods of Fainer and the hateful Zionist media circles that promoted them, reviewing what has been written in the American press on the subject, in addition to the author's defenses that shed light on aspects of Edward Said's thought regarding the meaning of identity, the concept of the intellectual, and political participation. Number of pages: 123