The Palestinians: Blaming the Victims - Said & Hitchens

Edward Said & Christopher Hitchens Moderated by Alexander Cockburn Christopher Hitchens is a regular columnist for The Nation and Vanity Fair. His articles appear in Granta - Harper's - London Review of Books and many other journals and magazines. He is the author of For the Sake of Argument. Edward Said - Columbia University professor - was born in Jerusalem - Palestine in 1935 and attended schools there and in Cairo. He received his BA from Princeton and his MA and PhD from Harvard. He is University Professor at Columbia. As one of the few advocates for Palestinian rights in the US - he has been the target of death threats and vandalism. In 1993 - he declined a White House invitation to attend the signing of the Oslo Accords. He criticized the agreement as an instrument of Palestinian surrender. An internationally renowned writer and scholar and one of the foremost intellectual figures of this era - he practically invented the field of post-colonial studies. The New York Times calls him one of the most influential literary and cultural critics in the world. Among his many books - which have been translated into a number of languages - are the now-classic Orientalism and Culture and Imperialism - central texts in colleges and universities all over the world - The Politics of Dispossession - The Question of Palestine - The End of the Peace Process and Reflections on Exile. His memoir - Out of Place - won the New Yorker Book of the Year Award. (audio cassette - 60 minutes - 1998)