VIDEO: Edward Said on the Iraq war and Israel's Occupation

Professor Edward Said: "Memory, Inequality and Power: Palestine and the Universality of Human Rights"

This lecture was held at 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, February 19, in Zellerbach Auditorium.

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Running Time: 1 hour, 39 minutes

Said, author of the groundbreaking work "Orientalism" and a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, is one of the most prominent literary and cultural critics in the United States. His writings about the Middle East and its relationship to the West have had a major influence on both scholarship and public opinion.

This event was sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and co-sponsored by the Office of the Chancellor.

Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Middle Eastern Studies has been taught at Berkeley since 1894, and Berkeley today is one of thirteen national resource centers designated by the United States Department of Education for the study of the Middle East. The University has 50 Middle East specialist faculty and academic staff and over 150 graduate students, with more than 100 courses relating to the Middle East offered in 18 departments and 6 professional schools, accounting for about 4,000 annual enrollments.

Sponsor website: http://www.ias.berkeley.edu/cmes/