About the Author
Edward W. Said is University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of more than twenty books, including
Orientalism (which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award),
Covering Islam,
Peace and Its Discontents,
The Politics of Dispossession,
Culture and Imperialism,
Representations of the Intellectual,
The Question of Palestine,
Out of Place,
The Edward Said Reader, and
The End of the Peace Process.
Gauri Viswanathan is Class of 1933 Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. She is the author of Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India and Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity, and Belief.