Out of Place (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Edward W. Said
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Memoirs
- Time of Work: Mostly 1935 to 1962, with flashforwards
- Setting: Palestine, Egypt, Lebanon, England, and the United States
- Principal Characters: Edward W. Said, William A. Said , Hilda Musa Said, Rosy, Jean, Joyce, Grace, Aunt Nabiha, Charles Malik, Jack Baldwin, Jeff Brieger, Keith Gatley, Griffith, Lowe, Ignace Tiegerman
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Memoir
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Schools or school life, England or English people, Cancer, Christianity, Egypt or Egyptians, Middle East, Learning or scholarship, Arabs
- Locales: United States, England, Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon
Two-thirds of the way into this engrossing memoir, Edward W. Said describes his temporary expulsion at fifteen from Cairo’s Victoria College, the school he disdainfully calls, with a nod to the bitter satires of George Orwell (1903-1950) and others, “the British Eton in Egypt.” A Christian native of Palestinian Jerusalem and born to privilege, the boy finds himself losing his sense of self as an unchallenged student on a new campus where family and class count for nothing—dress code and colorless British teachers and textbooks everything.
Said recalls a prank involving...
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