{"id":358877,"date":"2023-09-27T20:26:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T23:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/seminar-pays-tribute-to-edward-said-on-anniversary-of-death\/"},"modified":"2024-03-22T17:01:31","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T20:01:31","slug":"seminar-pays-tribute-to-edward-said-on-anniversary-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/seminar-pays-tribute-to-edward-said-on-anniversary-of-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminar pays tribute to Edward Sa\u00efd on anniversary of death"},"content":{"rendered":"

S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The 20th anniversary of the death of Palestinian critic, essayist and academic Edward Sa\u00efd (pictured<\/em>) will be celebrated in October at an international seminar held by C\u00e1tedra Edward Sa\u00efd of the Federal University of S\u00e3o Paulo (Unifesp), the Institute for Arab Culture (ICArabe), and the Social Service of Commerce of S\u00e3o Paulo (SESC-SP), with support from the Arab-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (ABCC). The meeting will feature his wife Marian and daughter Najla, experts on his work, and special guests.<\/p>\n

According to Unifesp professor and former dean Soraya Smaili, the organization of the seminar came from the C\u00e1tedra, an agency affiliated with the Unifesp, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of death of Sa\u00efd, study his work from the perspectivity of the present and the heritage left by his essays and arguments. \u201cSa\u00efd is timeless. He plays a part when you study the out of place, the alterity \u2013 it all begins with Orientalism. And he also discussed other issues including nationality and what it means to be an Arab in the West,\u201d said Smaili.<\/p>\n

SESC-SP regional director Danilo Santos de Miranda points out that the seminar aims to pay tribute to Sa\u00efd but also reflect on topical issues present in his work like origin, identity, exile, arts and sciences \u201cin the context of the critique of the Universalist dimension that lacks common rights available to all,\u201d and that for SESC-SP it gives the opportunity to contribute to a debate \u201cthat is on the agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter 20 years of the death of Edward Sa\u00efd, these topics remain present in our society amid the expansion of postcolonial and decolonial studies, for instance, and the demands of identity movements. In this sense, this seminar proposes a timely study of the complexity of the thinking of Edward Sa\u00efd as a way to bring new perspectives on the issues of the present,\u201d said Miranda.<\/p>\n

Sa\u00efd was born in 1935 in Jerusalen. He was son of Arab Christians and lived his boyhood in Cairo, Egypt, before moving to the United States in his teenage years. He was a professor at Columbia University in New York, where he died on 25 September 2003 after enduring a 12-year sickness with leukemia. He is the author of several books including Orientalism, Culture and Imperialism, Humanism and Democratic Criticism, and Reflections on Exile.<\/p>\n

His thinking was based on the concept and critique of the view and values that the West have on the East. He denied the appraisal that critics had of him as the founder of postcolonial studies, as he believed that the colonialism didn\u2019t stop existing. An advocate for the State of Palestine, he was critic of the Oslo Accords, an attempt to end the conflicts in Palestine, and former chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Yasser Arafat (1929-2004), from who he distanced himself.<\/p>\n

In addition to Sa\u00efd\u2019s wife and daughter, the two-day event will feature panels with writer Milton Hatoum; emeritus professor of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (USP), Walnice Nogueira Galv\u00e3o; poet, translator and Arabic professor at USP Michel Sleiman; professor of International Law and coordinator of the Global Law and Development Center of the FGV think tank, Salem Nasser; professor of Cultural Anthropology at the La Sapienza University in Rome, Massimo Cavenacci; and Humanities professor of the University of Minnesota and biographer of Sa\u00efd, Timothy Brennan; as well as other scholars the delve into the work of Sa\u00efd and the Arab culture.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe seminar will bring researchers from Lebanon and the Arab world with important work about the world from the Arab countries. It is important to bring that to the debate. We can have a joint construction. When he talks about dialogue and coexistence, it is about doing and building together. That\u2019s why his work is so timeless,\u201d said Smaili.<\/p>\n

For the Marketing and Communication vice president of the ABCC, Silvia Antibas, the seminar keeps Sa\u00efd\u2019s ideas in evidence. \u201cEdward Sa\u00efd is increasingly contemporary; everything he said can be fully adapted to today, on topics such as the diaspora, orientalism, it is still very current today,\u201d she said. She also recalled it would be a moment to pay tribute to professor Olg\u00e1ria Matos, the Edward Sa\u00efd C\u00e1tedra coordinator.<\/p>\n

The seminar will be held on October 10 and 11, starting at 10:30 am BRT at the SESC S\u00e3o Paulo Research and Training Center. The in-person event has free admission, but registration is required. For more information, click this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Translation by Guilheme Miranda & El\u00fasio Brasileiro<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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