‘Out of Place’: A Life in Transit

In Out of Place, Palestinian-American literary critic Edward Said remarkably traces an exalted recollection of his life between cultures — Cambridge’s academic halls and Cairo’s teeming streets, Jerusalem’s contested sanctity and Beirut’s cosmopolitan allure — tangled and torn apart by the dispossessing and seismic reverberations of the Arab-Israeli War, Egyptian Revolution and, later, the Lebanese Civil War.