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Introduction / Moustafa Bayoumi and Andrew Rubin -- Pt. I: Beginnings. The claim of individuality (1966) ; The Palestinian experience (1969) ; Molestation and authority in narrative fiction (1971) -- Pt. II: Orientalism and after. Orientalism (1978) ; Introduction to orientalism (1978) ; The scope of orientalism (1978) ; Zionism from the standpoint of its victims (1979) ; Islam as news (1980) ; Traveling theory (1982) ; Secular criticism (1983) ; Permission to narrate (1984) ; Interiors (1986) ; Yeats and decolonization (1988) -- Pt. III: Late styles. Performance as an extreme occasion (1989) ; Jane Austen and empire (1990) ; Intellectual exile: expatriates and marginals (1993) ; The Middle East "peace process": misleading images and brutal actualities (1995) ; On writing a memoir (1990) -- Pt. IV: Spoken words. An interview with Edward W. Said (1999)

Presents key selections from the works of Edward Said