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爱德华·W·萨义德
（Edward W. Said，1935-2003.9.24）
生于耶路撒冷，从1963年起在美国哥伦比亚大学任教，教授英语文学和比较文学，是享有声誉的文学和文化批评家，同时也是乐评家、歌剧鉴赏者、钢琴家。他的乐评、文学评论和他的理论著作一样，学识渊博，兼有清晰明快的行文风格。其主要著作包括《东方学》（1978；中译本，三联书店1999年出版）、《巴勒斯坦问题》（1979）、《世界·文本·批评家》（1983）、《文化与帝国主义》（1993）、《知识分子论》（1994；中译本，三联书店2001年出版）以及《流离失所的政治：巴勒斯坦自决的奋斗，1969-1994》（1994）等等；其后发表的自传《乡关何处》（Out
of Place）亦广受好评。
广博的学者、犀利的批评家和不屈的斗士，这是人们对他的评价。
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Said, Edward W.
Born in Palestinian Jerusalem, Said
studied there and in Cairo before moving to the United States. Although
he is a Palestinian by birth, his education has been "Western" (B.A.,
Princeton, 1957; M.A. and Ph.D., Harvard, 1960, 1964). Since 1963 he has
taught at Columbia University, where he is now Old Dominion Professor in
the Humanities. He is also a music critic for the Nation (see his
Musical Elaborations). As a displaced Arab studying European literature
in America, Said has fashioned a career out of the fabric of his own
dislocation. From this singular perspective he has developed an
influential type of cultural criticism. His importance to contemporary
critics is that in refusing to accept the cloak of neutrality that most
scholars wear he has shown how literary criticism can be applied to the
most volatile and current of struggles for cultural hegemony.
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