I can’t watch this without tearing. Thank you, Al Jazeera for this glorious tribute to one of my favorite human beings to ever walk this earth. Alhamdulillah.
one would be made of stone to not be moved by this documentary and Edward Said's profound contribution to the Palestinian cause. Thank you very much Al Jazeera.
Palestinians seem really humble I keep thinking about some of those Palestinian gals and holding them letting them cry on my of course I'd hide my valuables first but geez they're some beauty's
At 74 as an educated American I feel so ignorant. I knew so little about the Palestinians cause. I had lock stepped walked along with complete sympathy for Israel never understanding the plight of Palestine. I don’t think I truly understand yet but I feel like from this video I have had a glimpse into a world I did not know. Now I have a hunger to understand and know more. Thank you.
You are not alone most countries that support Israel censor the news media, to keep certain things from the countries people in the irate place whatever the Zionist want the media follow and we are manipulated by what we re allowed to watch read see and hear about Israel and the genocide they have been committing mostly on children and women and over 18 year olds lost parent mums dads aunt s and uncles cousins and Gradma mum and dad, if you are fortunate enough to have families,
An ordinary man with an extraordinary mind. His work is timeless and a symbol of resistance against the occupation and tyranny. He was simply brave enough to speak what's obvious.. Amazing.
Yes :’) He was a really special man. A gift to us all really. He surprises me all the time, even after having read him for so many years.. I still catch myself hyperventilating (oftentimes pausing to stare at a specific sentence or paragraph with my jaw slightly hung) in between pages. What a divine revelation he was to the displaced, oppressed, and marginalised! Inspiring and invigorating to say the least! :’)
@@maisarah961yeah I can probably agree with that but come on tell me what's with the jaw hung? The O'Day City looks like a pleasant place these day's from the youtube of course.
speechless.....very emotional ...I wept many times...Thanks Aljazeera and everyone who made this masterpiece...no words can describe Edward Said..A true Palestinian
Heart-felt memoir, and one of the best, most authentic books that I’ve chanced to read. May Allah always bless him in Jannah and his family-true Christians and people of Faith and Honor for all people. ❤️🌴True humanist. True human.
Thank you so much for this doc about Edward Said's life. His book Orientalism was the main source in the Peace Studies course i took at university in the 90's focusing on 'the other'. I was saddened by his death but knowledge he so eloquently put out there is an invaluable source especially today with the horrific genocide we are all witnessing of a people under apartheid. His books need to be read, especially in the West and should be required reading for anyone who goes in to foreign policy positions with power to make decisions that affect those in these terrible situations, especially the Palestinians..
Said was great, I admit. I did a degree in Middle East politics in Australia (many Somali immigrants now) and Wash. DC in the early 1990s and traveled extensively in the Arab world. Sadly not to Somalia.... yet. :-) Dear MMM - would you ever consider writing a short summary of Prof. Dawkin's book "The God Delusion"? I don't think there's one in Somali and our friends there could be helped by it a LOT I feel. Respectfully, D.A., J.D. NYC
Te he leído, te he estudiado, te he enseñado, aún sigo leyéndote, aún sigo estudiándote, aún sigo enseñándote y cómo duele todo y qué bello es este documental 🌿💫
@@brahimlh2909 I was young when Bosnian war was going on My Dad and mom was watching those Footage in Drawing room when I reach their I saw Tears in my Dads eyes , I asked him what happen Abbu he couldn't answer me that day his only word was " one day u will know", time pass I also grow up in same Oriental study and diluted my morality, when I was searching meaning of life in western culture Emptiness was growing inside of me everyday , during my University time I start questioning injustice around me and attracted by Karl Marx writing with Che Guevara "Motorcycle Dairy" , but the more I know about Communism I was aware this is not the Answer , during this time I Found my inspiration of life Sheikh Hamza Yusuf. And my life start to change , as our Beloved prophet Muhammad(s) said "My Ummah is like a alive body , if any part of it is in pain rest of the Body will fell that pain " I saw Muslim in Kashmir,China,Myanmar,Afghanistan,Iraq,Shams,Libya,Somalia,Sudan and Palestine and their suffering, as Sheikh say if any one need to understand the real world around us he must Educate him self about Palestine , where East meet West, 1% vs 99%, automatic Raifel vs Stone , and he also said that he learn very early from Mauritania the thing u can't change the only option we have to pray to Allah with Tears and Educate others about that , those writing came all of my experience from my entire life . MAY ALLAH bless you . AsalamuAlaikum.
Professor Edward Said never actually lived in Palestine! He is from Cairo. His father, Wadi was Palestinian but had emigrated to Cairo in 1920. At least nine years prior to his son’s birth in 1935, Wadie Said was already residing permanently in Cairo, Egypt…according to the 1926 French edition of the Egyptian Directory….It was to Cairo that Edward Said’s mother Hilda (Musa), of Lebanese origin, moved upon marrying his father in 1932, and it was in Cairo that the nuclear family continued to reside over the ensuing decades.
@@maybraik4733 in 1920 his father would actually have been Arab, sometime Palestinian Arab, but not simply Palestinian. The Arabstinians would not take on that misnomer until 1964.
@@maybraik4733 it doesn't matter these Arabs were born in Israel. Israel belongs to the Jews. Arabs may live peacefully in Jewish state but doesn't have the right to destroy the people or the state.
@@dorandacolbert5973 and they are anti-semite if they refuse a jewish man from broklyn taking their homes and they are anti semites if religious extremists destroy their olive trees and corpses and taking their land Is that what you are saying
A great man who took up the cause of the Palestinians as his life mission and never forgot his roots. This beautiful and poignant documentary could not have been aired at a better time. Thank you Aljazeera.
while watching racist reporting of western media amid the Ukraine war, It reminded me of the works of Edward Said. Thank you Said, you would always be alive in our hearts.
Thanks for this wonderful retrospective on Edward Said, incredibly influential author who challenged the Western stereotypes about the Middle East which continue to be reflected in mainstream Western media. Fortunately, social media platforms are successfully challenging this dominant narrative. I’m sure he would have approved! 😊😊
I felt heard and vindicated when i read Orientalism. He explained the othering of people either born , raise or viewed as Eastern be it asian, arab or African. It changed me and change how i view my own identity compared to the Western culture i grew up in
A Blessing, in a world where Those Without Itegrity rise swiftly to the surface to hate and destroy...The Few - with Integrity (and intelligence) are left to redeem us all...if this is even possible, now?
Came here coz of feeling like edward since I was born under anarchy for over 32 years, and still waiting to get strong nation. Edward was really real scholar .
Once read an insightful review Said wrote of a biography on Glenn Gould. He seemed to be a keen fan of his playing. It would seem Said’s influence wasn’t limited to his deeper calling.
Yes, Edward Said was deeply connected to music of traditional Arabic and Western classical music. Do you know who Daniel Barenboim is?? I cannot possibly explain him, and must speak of his career in the past tense because he’s very ill and no longer creating music on stage, but he was one of the most influential conductors and pianists of the 20th century, an unbelievable prodigy in his youth, articulate in 8 languages, a Jew born in Argentina. Barenboim is also an intellectual, but he and Edward Said met because of music, and became very good friends through their discussions on the Israeli-Palestinian divide, which resulted in the famous West-Eastern Divan Orchestra for Israeli and Arab teenaged musicians. Barenboim’s ideas about Palestine have made him a pariah in many Israeli circles, but he’s never backed down on anything, as is true of Dr. Said.
Thank you. I truly do not understand how any israeli can feel contentment with what they did to Palestinians. How? israelis are not a normal group of humans, quite the contrary.
does anyone know where i can find the article mentoned around minute 43? When Said gives up arguing with his student about why he started that music initiative between israelis and palestinians
Muy importante volver a releer a Said en estos días de violencia sionista. Ojalá este contenido estuviera en español para que despierten más personas en Latinoamérica.
A superb human being and important writer. His work must be read especially now in regards to Palestine. I am glad he did not live to see this depravity.
It is a shame he never met and talked to Musa Alami whose book on his life "Palestine is my Country" was written by Sir Geoffrey Furlonge. He came from a very prominent Palestinian family and went into politics. He set up the Arab Development Society in the West Bank with a school for Palestinian refugees who he rescued and gave schooling and a means of earning their living on the farm.
From the late Yasin until today! We have been crying for many years over the massacre of Diriasin and Kafrqasem. 100 to 200 Palestinians were massacred in Diriyasin and 48 in Kafr Qasim. Compared to today's war, these numbers are not huge! Is humanity moving forward or backward in terms of cruelty and violence? Weapons are becoming more destructive day by day and human lives are losing more and more value. Is this the result of Nietzsche's famous statement about God? Or is the debate still about what kind of worship of God is, contrary to Nietzsche's view, life? Or that selfish people have hidden God in the basement of their minds and, by claiming God for themselves, are taking the human race to the slaughterhouse? Or does the story have nothing to do with God? Murder and brutality have always challenged optimism about the nature of humanity. A new type of pessimism is emerging with regard to human nature. In my opinion, pessimism towards human nature can make the world more tolerable, because it lowers the level of expectations towards it! Expecting mercy, compassion, fairness, justice and morality from him over all his fellow human beings apparently seems more like stupidity and how stupid God has made me!
Yes, I think too many of us feel the same frustration! I will keep joining the marches calling for a ceasefire, I will continue to spread my knowledge online, I will continue to email my government representative to continue to urge for a ceasefire, whatever we can do.
BRAHIM LH his leftist fanclub started to distance themselves from him in his last days. They certainly recognized that his theories were bogus. The guy had western bias (living there most of his life). Post-colonial lunacies and whatnot
A simple question from a simple person. Why did Mr. Said NOT return TO Palestine?? He was free to do so and could have started a University there and helped his people and vanquished the "alienation" that he felt all his life. As an aside: I have his book, "Orientalism" and have read parts of it.
I can’t watch this without tearing. Thank you, Al Jazeera for this glorious tribute to one of my favorite human beings to ever walk this earth. Alhamdulillah.
Alhamdulillah
We're you laughing so hard your eye's watered? 😂 👈🏼🤨 like so 😅
one would be made of stone to not be moved by this documentary and Edward Said's profound contribution to the Palestinian cause. Thank you very much Al Jazeera.
Palestinians seem really humble I keep thinking about some of those Palestinian gals and holding them letting them cry on my of course I'd hide my valuables first but geez they're some beauty's
Gracias por traernos esta historia de un ejemplar ser humano...
I’m just hearing & learning of Edward Said because of the current war. Next to read his books
At 74 as an educated American I feel so ignorant. I knew so little about the Palestinians cause. I had lock stepped walked along with complete sympathy for Israel never understanding the plight of Palestine. I don’t think I truly understand yet but I feel like from this video I have had a glimpse into a world I did not know. Now I have a hunger to understand and know more. Thank you.
No thank you Barbara for being willing to open your heart and mind to our history and suffering ❤
May Allah guide you
You are not alone most countries that support Israel censor the news media, to keep certain things from the countries people in the irate place whatever the Zionist want the media follow and we are manipulated by what we re allowed to watch read see and hear about Israel and the genocide they have been committing mostly on children and women and over 18 year olds lost parent mums dads aunt s and uncles cousins and Gradma mum and dad, if you are fortunate enough to have families,
This is because of decades of systematic propaganda about!
The mainstream media doesn't like to talk about it!
Edward W Said is an unforgettable literary icon.
He was THE biggest intellectual influence of my life ... RIP
An ordinary man with an extraordinary mind. His work is timeless and a symbol of resistance against the occupation and tyranny. He was simply brave enough to speak what's obvious.. Amazing.
Yes :’) He was a really special man. A gift to us all really. He surprises me all the time, even after having read him for so many years.. I still catch myself hyperventilating (oftentimes pausing to stare at a specific sentence or paragraph with my jaw slightly hung) in between pages. What a divine revelation he was to the displaced, oppressed, and marginalised! Inspiring and invigorating to say the least! :’)
an extraordinary man, you don't find the kinds like him anymore!
@@maisarah961yeah I can probably agree with that but come on tell me what's with the jaw hung? The O'Day City looks like a pleasant place these day's from the youtube of course.
I’m not Palestinian, nor Arab, nor Muslim, and yet his reflections hit home. A great mind and heart.
The best book I ever read in my life 'Orientalism'.❤
I'm proud to say that Professor Edward W. Said has always been someone I admire & respect, my parents felt the same way.
Thanks for producing this documentary
speechless.....very emotional ...I wept many times...Thanks Aljazeera and everyone who made this masterpiece...no words can describe Edward Said..A true Palestinian
This man’s work really influenced me, my studies and ultimately how I see the world. Such an incredible mind. So grateful for his work.
Heart-felt memoir, and one of the best, most authentic books that I’ve chanced to read. May Allah always bless him in Jannah and his family-true Christians and people of Faith and Honor for all people. ❤️🌴True humanist. True human.
Thank you so much for this doc about Edward Said's life. His book Orientalism was the main source in the Peace Studies course i took at university in the 90's focusing on 'the other'. I was saddened by his death but knowledge he so eloquently put out there is an invaluable source especially today with the horrific genocide we are all witnessing of a people under apartheid. His books need to be read, especially in the West and should be required reading for anyone who goes in to foreign policy positions with power to make decisions that affect those in these terrible situations, especially the Palestinians..
Said's pen was very influential. I have read Orientalism and have written a short summary of it in Somali language.
that's how it should be.
you learn something through a foreign language and you talk about it to your people in their language.
Said was great, I admit. I did a degree in Middle East politics in Australia (many Somali immigrants now) and Wash. DC in the early 1990s and traveled extensively in the Arab world. Sadly not to Somalia.... yet. :-) Dear MMM - would you ever consider writing a short summary of Prof. Dawkin's book "The God Delusion"? I don't think there's one in Somali and our friends there could be helped by it a LOT I feel. Respectfully, D.A., J.D. NYC
David Anderson
that's some dark humour .
@Blue Star Your star is pretty dim
hi . can i speak with you .
Excellent documentary... Edward Said was a remarkable person who transcended boundaries...
I am just learning of this intellectual in light of the current events between Israel and Palestine. What an amazing man.
Dual identities create a unique writer and make him have two feelings in one body.
Great look at his life. Thank you Al-Jazeera!
Te he leído, te he estudiado, te he enseñado, aún sigo leyéndote, aún sigo estudiándote, aún sigo enseñándote y cómo duele todo y qué bello es este documental 🌿💫
❤❤
Learned so much from Edward Said in more ways than one.
35:42 , 46:01 tears is the only thing I can contribute to those feeling of Palestinian people.
Orientalism .
May i ask if this quote is from you or from somewhere else? Thank you
@@brahimlh2909 I was young when Bosnian war was going on My Dad and mom was watching those Footage in Drawing room when I reach their I saw Tears in my Dads eyes , I asked him what happen Abbu he couldn't answer me that day his only word was " one day u will know", time pass I also grow up in same Oriental study and diluted my morality, when I was searching meaning of life in western culture Emptiness was growing inside of me everyday , during my University time I start questioning injustice around me and attracted by Karl Marx writing with Che Guevara "Motorcycle Dairy" , but the more I know about Communism I was aware this is not the Answer , during this time I Found my inspiration of life Sheikh Hamza Yusuf. And my life start to change , as our Beloved prophet Muhammad(s) said "My Ummah is like a alive body , if any part of it is in pain rest of the Body will fell that pain " I saw Muslim in Kashmir,China,Myanmar,Afghanistan,Iraq,Shams,Libya,Somalia,Sudan and Palestine and their suffering, as Sheikh say if any one need to understand the real world around us he must Educate him self about Palestine , where East meet West, 1% vs 99%, automatic Raifel vs Stone , and he also said that he learn very early from Mauritania the thing u can't change the only option we have to pray to Allah with Tears and Educate others about that , those writing came all of my experience from my entire life .
MAY ALLAH bless you .
AsalamuAlaikum.
15:41 Six-Day War (1967)
26:49 Steve Biko
27:50 Reflections on Exile
29:58 Mahmoud Darwish
41:32 music
45:29 term terrorism in the US
Wow what an incredible human being! God Bless his soul !❤😢
I like the way Palestine is pronounced in Arabic.
And this is how it's written
فلسطين
One of my heroes. RIP Edward Said. Your work is still helping and more than ever to help free your people.
One of the fantastic Documentary by Al Jazeera
Thank you Al Jazeera.
He may be dead, but his wishes will never die.
First time my lecturer gave me an essay of Edward Said, I was immediately interested with Said words
Professor Edward Said never actually lived in Palestine! He is from Cairo. His father, Wadi was Palestinian but had emigrated to Cairo in 1920. At least nine years prior to his son’s birth in 1935, Wadie Said was already residing permanently in Cairo, Egypt…according to the 1926 French edition of the Egyptian Directory….It was to Cairo that Edward Said’s mother Hilda (Musa), of Lebanese origin, moved upon marrying his father in 1932, and it was in Cairo that the nuclear family continued to reside over the ensuing decades.
@@dorandacolbert5973 hasbara lies
His father is from jerusalem , his mom from nazareth , his fater teaching in egypte means nothing
@@maybraik4733 in 1920 his father would actually have been Arab, sometime Palestinian Arab, but not simply Palestinian. The Arabstinians would not take on that misnomer until 1964.
@@maybraik4733 it doesn't matter these Arabs were born in Israel. Israel belongs to the Jews. Arabs may live peacefully in Jewish state but doesn't have the right to destroy the people or the state.
@@dorandacolbert5973 and they are anti-semite if they refuse a jewish man from broklyn taking their homes and they are anti semites if religious extremists destroy their olive trees and corpses and taking their land
Is that what you are saying
One of the most intellectual person of east & west
Great scholar.
A great man who took up the cause of the Palestinians as his life mission and never forgot his roots. This beautiful and poignant documentary could not have been aired at a better time. Thank you Aljazeera.
I am saddened watching this, rip , you are no longer out of place.
while watching racist reporting of western media amid the Ukraine war, It reminded me of the works of Edward Said. Thank you Said, you would always be alive in our hearts.
Yes
What a profound documentary. May his soul rest in power. May we all carry his legacy with honor.
....will live a Million Years.....Edward Said.
Thank you, Dr, Said. I've often been considered an "other." That's due to other people's perceptions. Bias and prejudice are an inside job 😊
Amazing story
Thank you for sharing, great personality, searching for orientalism in arts and the political social part is the most important
notice how they even called him "professor of terror" sadly nothing has changed...
amazing.💙
A compelling narrative of his work and life.
Thanks for this wonderful retrospective on Edward Said, incredibly influential author who challenged the Western stereotypes about the Middle East which continue to be reflected in mainstream Western media. Fortunately, social media platforms are successfully challenging this dominant narrative. I’m sure he would have approved! 😊😊
Truth and Real Truth can never be out of place and he represented that. So he is always a real strong man for the whole world to look up to.
His works have greatly influenced my political beliefs as a Muslim and a African American Marxist..
I felt heard and vindicated when i read Orientalism. He explained the othering of people either born , raise or viewed as Eastern be it asian, arab or African. It changed me and change how i view my own identity compared to the Western culture i grew up in
A beautifully told story of a beautiful human being. Thank you Al Jazeera and Long Live Palestine.
I wish to talk on Al Jazeera platform about my country
loved it
A great mind and indomitable crusader against Israeli expansionism & usurpation.
A Blessing, in a world where Those Without Itegrity rise swiftly to the surface to hate and destroy...The Few - with Integrity (and intelligence) are left to redeem us all...if this is even possible, now?
Wonderful documentary❤️
Came here coz of feeling like edward since I was born under anarchy for over 32 years, and still waiting to get strong nation. Edward was really real scholar .
FREE PALESTINE! From the river to the sea
free israel from the sea to the river from 1400 years of colonialization of arabic hate
He Was Correct about the OSLO ACCORD! Very Sad!
Once read an insightful review Said wrote of a biography on Glenn Gould. He seemed to be a keen fan of his playing. It would seem Said’s influence wasn’t limited to his deeper calling.
Yes, Edward Said was deeply connected to music of traditional Arabic and Western classical music. Do you know who Daniel Barenboim is?? I cannot possibly explain him, and must speak of his career in the past tense because he’s very ill and no longer creating music on stage, but he was one of the most influential conductors and pianists of the 20th century, an unbelievable prodigy in his youth, articulate in 8 languages, a Jew born in Argentina. Barenboim is also an intellectual, but he and Edward Said met because of music, and became very good friends through their discussions on the Israeli-Palestinian divide, which resulted in the famous West-Eastern Divan Orchestra for Israeli and Arab teenaged musicians. Barenboim’s ideas about Palestine have made him a pariah in many Israeli circles, but he’s never backed down on anything, as is true of Dr. Said.
@@voraciousreader3341 I’m aware of Barenboim’s work with Israeli and Palestinian musicians but I didn’t know this had a connection to Said. Thank you!
@@voraciousreader3341
Yes, an inspiring and productive friendship.
Eduard Said unforgettable literary with extraordinary mind.
if someone has audios of orientalism and his other books, plz share and upload to youtube
Thank you. I truly do not understand how any israeli can feel contentment with what they did to Palestinians. How? israelis are not a normal group of humans, quite the contrary.
Loved it from Bangladesh ❤❤❤❤❤
does anyone know where i can find the article mentoned around minute 43? When Said gives up arguing with his student about why he started that music initiative between israelis and palestinians
Muy importante volver a releer a Said en estos días de violencia sionista. Ojalá este contenido estuviera en español para que despierten más personas en Latinoamérica.
GRAN HUMANISTA, LLENO DE AMOR POR PALESTINA
A superb human being and important writer. His work must be read especially now in regards to Palestine. I am glad he did not live to see this depravity.
It is a shame he never met and talked to Musa Alami whose book on his life "Palestine is my Country" was written by Sir Geoffrey Furlonge. He came from a very prominent Palestinian family and went into politics. He set up the Arab Development Society in the West Bank with a school for Palestinian refugees who he rescued and gave schooling and a means of earning their living on the farm.
💚💚
SUBS DONE GREAT VLOG ---
One for the algo thank you Aljazeera
❤❤
The actor playing Said looks more like Harold Ramis from the 80s, not Said. Oh well.
"No cause, no God, no abstract idea can justify the mass slaughter of innocents." Edward Said
WOW/////
From the late Yasin until today!
We have been crying for many years over the massacre of Diriasin and Kafrqasem. 100 to 200 Palestinians were massacred in Diriyasin and 48 in Kafr Qasim. Compared to today's war, these numbers are not huge! Is humanity moving forward or backward in terms of cruelty and violence?
Weapons are becoming more destructive day by day and human lives are losing more and more value. Is this the result of Nietzsche's famous statement about God? Or is the debate still about what kind of worship of God is, contrary to Nietzsche's view, life? Or that selfish people have hidden God in the basement of their minds and, by claiming God for themselves, are taking the human race to the slaughterhouse? Or does the story have nothing to do with God?
Murder and brutality have always challenged optimism about the nature of humanity. A new type of pessimism is emerging with regard to human nature. In my opinion, pessimism towards human nature can make the world more tolerable, because it lowers the level of expectations towards it! Expecting mercy, compassion, fairness, justice and morality from him over all his fellow human beings apparently seems more like stupidity and how stupid God has made me!
Yes, I think too many of us feel the same frustration! I will keep joining the marches calling for a ceasefire, I will continue to spread my knowledge online, I will continue to email my government representative to continue to urge for a ceasefire, whatever we can do.
The great mind can not change the fate of Palestinians.
Palestinian American
Giant
No wonder zionist entity don't have any respect for PLO 😢😢.how can Abbas allowed that?
No loss....
Arafat sold out that's why he signed the Oslo accord.
His last weeks are symptomatic of his theories.
what do you mean by that?
BRAHIM LH his leftist fanclub started to distance themselves from him in his last days.
They certainly recognized that his theories were bogus.
The guy had western bias (living there most of his life).
Post-colonial lunacies and whatnot
@@nomegustaperonoquieredecir3514 hi
@@barakah4097 stupid comment from a moron.....
@@barakah4097 If I were your history teacher, you would get a 'fail' from me.
A simple question from a simple person.
Why did Mr. Said NOT return TO Palestine??
He was free to do so and could have started a University there and helped his people and vanquished the "alienation" that he felt all his life.
As an aside: I have his book, "Orientalism" and have read parts of it.
Is this a feud of pseuds?
@@AJost-sb8ux asserting "pseuds" implies there are "non pseuds". Basic logic. You should try it sometime......
So that he'd be assassinated by Israel ??
A simple statement from a simple man , go read some history .
I recall Said saying that while he was in Palestine, he couldn't do in it as much as he could from the United States.
Thanks for informing me about nature say no Israel...