palestinian issue on the academic level, at least, and the students, who are so many questions, why did edward saeedn the school when there's so much public relations on one side you can't avoid public relations if you're going to have any chance at all on the other side and edward was a sort o the reality of the palestinian people's life before and after the presence the occupiers were the reality that the western media loved to show. qalunna alik tarhal kal yum tarfaal kal yum tadar fi aruqa al-maabar al-aqid kanais al-qidima watmaseh al- hazn aan al-masjid finally, the anger of the palestinian people in 1987 had a chance to emerge. an israeli truck ran over and killed several palestinian workers. several similar incidents had happened in the same days. people stood in front of the aggressors with empty hands and stones . the interphase had begun and a window of hope had opened. i was definitely a supporter of such an event. in the young people who started the intifada , i saw strength that showed how much effort they put in to leave an example of palestine. this nation is still alive. al-watan al

saeed before 67, edward saeed after 67. between 67 and the 1973 war um when israel expanded again uhbecame increasingly concerned with uh the question of palestine and the situation uh of of palestinians and the arab world in general. by 1970 i was completely involved. i had started to write uh in this country and... 'i was immediately politically involved up to my neck. edward also at that time began to realize that he is them palestinian and it's okay to stand up for the down-trodden and to actually regain that identity. it was in that environment that i think because i discovered them that i had to rethink my life and my identity, even though it had been so sort of sheltered and built up in this completely artificial way, i had to rethink it from the beginning.' "we did exactly what you expect us to do, we were just modern, we spoke your language, we studied your language, and then all of a sudden this society here slapped them, they said, no, you are dirty arabs because you couldn't" t even war, you couldn't even fight, the whole the whole war lasted only six days, that kind of i

must descend from god the existence and belief in the whole of palestine, this is the spirit of edward saeed it was natural for me to see the oslo incident as an obstacle to the supreme ambition of recovering the whole of palestine. last time i saw him in lebanon was in the spring of 82, he was in bed, i went to visit him in one of his mysterious residences. he seemed very, very ill, and i said, it's quite clear to me that the israelis are going to attack, and he, i'll never forget what he said, if he said, if they want to attack, welcome to them, let them come, suggesting that he could deal with it, this is where my and saaf's paths diverged , after a member. time i really understood how sick he was when he was playing the piano once and i heard him make mistakes which he which was unusual for him, he was playing the piano with a friend, they were playing a shobert peace four hands and he kept making mistakes and she was very patient with his colleague and she told him okay okay she had been dead for about a year, just to put in writing uh feelings that i would like to have shared with her.