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Edward Said

1935 - 2003

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Edward Wadie Said (1 November 1935 – 24 September 2003) was a Palestinian-American academic, literary critic, and political activist. As a professor of literature at Columbia University, he was among the founders of post-colonial studies. As a cultural critic, Said is best known for his book Orientalism (1978), a foundational text which critiques the cultural representations that are the bases of Orientalism—how the Western world perceives the Orient. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward Said has received more than 3,434,667 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 65 in 2019). Edward Said is the 485th most popular writer (down from 398th in 2019), the 75th most popular biography from Israel (down from 58th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Israeli Writer.

Edward is most famous for his work on the theory of relativity.

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  • 67

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  • 5.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Edward Said ranks 485 out of 7,302. Before him are Martial, W. B. Yeats, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Maria Leopoldina of Austria, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Luo Guanzhong. After him are Vuk Karadžić, Charles, Duke of Orléans, Wu Cheng'en, Giorgos Seferis, Ilya Ehrenburg, and Ludvig Holberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Edward Said ranks 26. Before him are Omar Sívori, Omar Bongo, Faisal II of Iraq, Fairuz, Luis Suárez, and Theo Angelopoulos. After him are John Cazale, Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, Sylvia Earle, William Friedkin, Gherman Titov, and Mylène Demongeot. Among people deceased in 2003, Edward Said ranks 16. Before him are Johnny Cash, Barry White, Maurice Gibb, Ilya Prigogine, Nina Simone, and Soong Mei-ling. After him are Alan Bates, Elia Kazan, Leopoldo Galtieri, Robert Kardashian, Gianni Agnelli, and Zoran Đinđić.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Edward Said ranks 75 out of 466. Before him are Manasseh of Judah (-800), Haggai (-550), Simeon (null), James, brother of Jesus (-20), Gal Gadot (1985), and Jehoiakim (-634). After him are Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi (1947), Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem (1105), Jehoash of Judah (-843), Penitent thief (-18), Amon of Judah (-660), and George Habash (1926).

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Among WRITERS In Israel

Among writers born in Israel, Edward Said ranks 4. Before him are John the Evangelist (10), Amos Oz (1939), and Mahmoud Darwish (1941). After him are Ghassan Kanafani (1936), David Grossman (1954), A. B. Yehoshua (1936), May Ziade (1886), Ahron Daum (1951), Justus of Tiberias (35), Meir Shalev (1948), and Gideon Levy (1953).

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