Edward Said, photo 1 of 2
Edward Said, photo 2 of 2

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Photo
Edward Said and Daniel Barenboim in Sevilla, 2002 (Said)
By
Barenboim-Said Akademie gGmbH
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Wikimedia Commons
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Photo credit

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Edward William Said 1957 Alt
By
Princeton University
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Public domain
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Wikimedia Commons
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赛义德

賽義德
Sàiyìdé
proper noun #68,939

Meanings

  1. 1 Said / Sayyid / Saeed (Arabic-origin given name or surname, transliteration)
  2. 2 Edward Said, Palestinian-American literary theorist

About Edward Said

1935–2003 · 学者 scholar

Palestinian-American literary scholar at Columbia University whose book 东方学 (Orientalism, 1978) argued that Western writing built a false picture of the East. It helped found postcolonial studies.

Also called  爱德华·赛义德、 萨义德

Examples

HSK 3
Sàiyìdé shì Ālābó shìjiè chángjiàn de míngzi.
Said is a common name in the Arab world.
HSK 5
爱德华·赛义德的《东方学》是一本很重要的书。
Àidéhuá Sàiyìdé de 《 Dōngfāng Xué 》 shì yīběn hěn zhòngyào de shū.
Edward Said's 'Orientalism' is a very important book.

Tips

culture
His memoir Out of Place came out on the mainland as 《格格不入》, a set phrase for not fitting in, and in Taiwan as 《乡关何处》 'where is home?', words that echo a line of the Tang poem 《黄鹤楼》: 日暮乡关何处是 'at dusk, which way lies home?'

Stroke Order

赛 sài
义 yì
德 dé