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UNDUE content removed

I have removed this UNDUE content, cited to this source, which has demonstrable errors.

Silvers was editor of the Review between the 1963 founding and his 2017 death.
Obituaries for his brother – who the source claims lived in Israel at the time – show he did not.
These articles by and about Said were published in the Review during that time frame,
including this long letter from Said in 1982.
"He told me" in a non-peer reviewed essay is hearsay; considering the demonstrable inaccuracies in the source, they can be considered UNDUE, and the source is suspect.

SandyGeorgia (Talk) 23:30, 12 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

And a few more Said publications in the Review:

1984: Chomsky's 'Fateful Triangle': An Exchange
1989: 'The Satanic Verses'
1982: Facing Deportation

SandyGeorgia (Talk) 00:11, 13 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Said's father is a Palestinian-American

Said's father should be identified as a Palestinian-American. According to the Guardian's obituary "His father Wadie, a Christian, had emigrated to the US before the first world war. He volunteered for service in France and returned to the Middle East as a respectable Protestant businessman - with American citizenship - before making an arranged marriage to the daughter of a Baptist minister from Nazareth. In Out Of Place (1999), the memoir of his childhood and youth, Said described his father, who called himself William to emphasise his adopted American identity, as overbearing and uncommunicative."

So while Said's father was born in Palestine (during Ottoman times), he emigrated to the US and later gained citizenship during military service. He returned to the region, then under British control, as an American expat to do business. He married a local woman and raised children. But there is no indication Said's father gave up his citizenship in the US despite living and working in Palestine and Egypt.

So he should be identified as Palestinian-American. Compare his identity to that of Shireen Abu Akleh who is identified as "Palestinian-American" because she gained American citizenship during her adulthood but lived most of her life in the Middle East (mostly the Palestinian Territory of the West Bank and also partially in Jordan). If she is Palestinian-American than so is Said's father.

So the sentence "His parents were born in the Ottoman Empire: his mother Hilda Said (née Musa) was half Palestinian and half Lebanese, and was raised in the city of Nazareth; and his father Wadie "William" Said was a Jerusalem-based Palestinian businessman." should instead read "...Wadie "William" Said was a Jerusalem-based Palestinian-American businessman."ItsRainingCatsAndDogsAndMen (talk) 15:43, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion for edit for clarity

After the 1948 Palestine war, he relocated to Egypt and then to the United States, enrolling at Victoria College and Northfield Mount Hermon School, respectively.

The above sentence might be better rendered as

After the 1948 Palestine war, he relocated to Egypt and then to the United States, enrolling at Victoria College while in Egypyt and Northfield Mount Hermon School after arriving in the United States.

for clarity. But as I don’t yet have 500 edits, I don’t have the requisite privileges to make the edit myself. D A Hosek (talk) 14:15, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that is an improvement. Thank you D A Hosek. Burrobert (talk) 15:45, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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I'd like to replace the profile picture. The profile photo of Prof. Edward Said shown in the article is not really a representative one, in the sense that's not how he's known around the world. It's also a side profile of the professor, and that's just poor. I have better pictures of him. Nzmnsum (talk) 09:54, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia has strict rules about the use of images, so as to avoid copyright violations. If they're pictures you took yourself, you can upload them with the Commons Upload Wizard. Otherwise, you'll have to prove that they're either in the public domain or were released under an applicable Creative Commons license. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 22:42, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

First wife not mentioned

Would make sense to also add a note that before Mariam he was also married to Maire Jaanus from 1962-1967. It is common knowledge that you can find many sources for online. From example here - https://www.theguardian.com/books/1999/sep/11/2 and here - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/edward-said-37181.html 88.196.9.21 (talk) 18:35, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]