The terrible conflicts that herd people under falsely unifying rubrics like 'America', 'The West' or 'Islam' must be opposed.

BY Edward Said 7 August 2003

The Arabs are thought of as different, incapable of logic, unable to tell the truth, fundamentally disruptive and murderous. A long-standing Orientalist view that will not permit the Arabs as a people to exercise their right to national self-determin

BY Edward Said 24 July 2003

The struggle of the Palestinian people is now a byword for emancipation and enlightenment, except, perhaps, in the Arab world.

BY Edward Said 29 June 2003

To read through the roadmap is to confront an unsituated document, oblivious of its time and place.

BY Edward Said 15 June 2003

Why do the Arabs never pool their resources to fight for the causes which officially, at least, they support. And how much further can they sink?

BY Edward Said 28 May 2003

What is formidable about Iraq is its rich culture, its complex society, and its long-suffering people, . These were all made invisible, the better to smash Iraq as if it were only a den of thieves and murderers

BY Edward Said 24 April 2003

Americans have been cheated and lied to on matters of the gravest constitutional importance.

BY Edward Said 20 April 2003

The United States is not the monolith many presume it to be. It is more accurate to apprehend America as embroiled in a serious clash of identities whose counterparts are visible as similar contests throughout the rest of the world.

BY Edward Said 21 March 2003

An immensely wealthy and powerful republic has been hijacked by a small cabal of individuals, all of them unelected and therefore unresponsive to public pressure, and simply turned on its head.

BY Edward Said 6 March 2003

That Bush and Sharon have contempt for the non-white people of this world is clear. The question is, how long can they keep getting away with it? Every one of us must raise our voices, and march in protest, now and again and again.

BY Edward Said 14 February 2003