AUDIO: UC Berkeley Talk by Edward Said: PALESTINE AND THE UNIVERSALITY OF HUMAN RIGHTS : Indybay

TUC Radio:
Edward Said: Palestine and the Universality of Human Rights

Length: 58:00

Subtitle:

February 19, 2003 speech in two parts

Summary:

Said talks about the rich Palestinian culture that was destroyed during the founding of the Israeli state in 1948. Unflinchingly he looks at current Israeli human rights violations and proposed three ways of healing.

Featuring:

Prof. Edward Said

Type:

Unspecified

Recorded:

02/19/03

Recorded At:

Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley

Producer:

Maria Gilardin

Uploaded On:

02/26/2003

Restrictions:

No excerpting/modifying without permission.
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Notes:

Edward Said, Palestine and the Universality of Human Rights

Professor Said is known as both a scholar of modern literature and an
expert on Middle Eastern politics. Educated at Princeton and Harvard he
now teaches at Columbia. His books, which have been translated into 36
languages, include: Covering Islam, and The Politics of Dispossession.

He was born in Palestine before the founding of the Jewish State. By
1950 his extended family had all fled Jerusalem for Cairo. Like hundreds
of thousands of Palestinians they were displaced by the Jewish state
that had been established 2 years earlier.

Edward Said spoke at UC Berkeley on February 19, 2003. Zellerbach Hall
holds over 2000 people. The event was sold out days earlier.