The writer, actress, playwright, and daughter of Palestinian scholar Edward Saïd closed the seminar The Intellectual Legacy of Edward Saïd on Wednesday (11). She told about her trip to Gaza with her family at 18, life in New York, and reacted to current events.
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Mariam Saïd is in São Paulo and spoke about Edward Saïd’s work as a professor, published papers and books, his love for music, and the question of Palestine. She has been contributing to keeping Saïd’s legacy alive since his death in 2003.
An event to be held in partnership between SESC-SP, Cátedra Edward Saïd of Unifesp and the Institute for Arab Culture will gather scholars and experts on the work of the Palestinian thinker. The wife and daughter of the author of Orientalism will participate.
The academic, writer, and poet has been a professor for 20 years at Sorbonne in Paris and dedicates to researching and disseminating the similarities between migratory flows, including Arabs in Brazil.
Najla Said was invited by the Middle East Study and Research Group (GEPOM) to talk about the life and work of Edward Said, the Palestinian intellectual who died in 2003. The event is free.
