{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/cf7520d4-c0d5-4b36-8f12-a828c622fc14/3db14de5-881d-4d9a-9f84-b3eca8ddd86f?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The life and mind of Edward Said","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/60eede6592322e0c04ee9b2f/60eede86384b620012a88852.jpg?height=200","description":"<p>Sameer Rahim joins professor David Herman for a discussion on the life and work of the public intellectual Edward Said, who is the subject of a new biography, <em>Places of Mind</em>, by Timothy Brennan. Sameer, who wrote about the limitations of the thinker in our most recent issue of <em>Prospect</em>, joins David, a former student of Said’s, to discuss what Said got right, and wrong, about orientalism, his friendship with Salman Rushdie, and what Said would have made of the Israel – Palestine conflict today.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>You can read Sameer’s essay here: https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/arts-and-books/disorientated-the-confusions-of-edward-said</p><p><br></p>","author_name":"Prospect Magazine"}