However, in 1999, he argued that sustainable peace was only possible with one Israeli-Palestinian state. He defined his oppositional relation with the Israeli ''status quo'' as the remit of the public intellectual who has "to sift, to judge, to criticize, to choose, so that choice and agency return to the individual".

Life and career

Early life

Said was born on 1 November 1935 into a family of Palestinian Christians

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