About the Book: Conversations with Edward Said
In these conversations with Tariq Ali, recorded in Edward Saids Riverside Drive
apartment in New York in June 1994, about a decade before he finally lost his
battle with cancer, Said brings his considerable intellect and deep personal
engagement to bear on some of the most troubling and volatile issues of our time
as he ranges back over his own dislocated existence, his initiation into
politics, his involvement with the Palestine cause, his approach to the study of
culture and his pervasive love of literature and music. Intimate, personal,
thought-provoking and absorbing, these conversations capture Said as political
activist, cultural