Title: Out of Place
Subtitle: A Memoir
First published: 1999
Description: "Out of Place is an extraordinary story of exile, a narrative of many departures, a celebration of an irrecoverable past.

A fatal medical diagnosis in 1991 convinced Edward Said that he should leave a record of where he was born and spent his childhood, and so with this memoir he rediscovers the Arab landscape of his early years - "the many places and people [who] no longer exist....Essentially a lost world." Vast changes occurred as Palestine became Israel, Lebanon was transformed by twenty years of civil war, and the colonial Egypt of King Farouk disappeared forever by 1952."--BOOK JACKET.

"Underscoring all is the confusion of identity as Said had to come to terms with the dissonance of being an American citizen, a Christian and a Palestinian, and, ultimately, an outsider."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Intellectuals, Palestinian Americans, Biography, Said, edward w., 1935-2003, Authors, biography, New York Times reviewed, United States of America, Biographies, memoirs and correspondance, Palestinians, Palestiniens, Biographies, Arab Authors, Palestinian Arabs, American Authors, Américains d'origine palestinienne, Et l'islam, Intellectuels, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Historical, HISTORY, State & Local, General
Places: United States
People: Edward W. Said
LC classification: E184.P33 S25 1999