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Jerusalem, Israel
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💡 Edward Said was born in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine, on 1 November 1935, and after the 1948 Palestine war his family moved first to Egypt and then to the United States. He became a professor of literature at Columbia University and one of the founders of post-colonial studies, best known for his 1978 book Orientalism, which examined Western representations of the Orient. His work reshaped academic discourse across literary theory, literary criticism and Middle Eastern studies.