Choosing to be Palestinian
newintermag.com
Said was the very antithesis of ramshackle sentiment–but if there are living roots to naive dreaming, to love and morality as modes of political engagement, Said drew water from them just as well.

For Said, humanism was a worldliness, a recognition (born from and shared with one of his great heroes, Giambattista Vico) that history, as something human beings made, was something they could understand and which they ought to claim responsibility for if they want it to be something else.