Dr. Edward Said was a Palestinian-American literary theorist and outspoken Palestinian activist. A University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, he was regarded as a founding figure in postcolonial theory. In this important lecture delivered at the University of Massachusetts in 1998, Said takes aim at one of the central tenets of recent foreign policy thinking; that conflicts between different and "clashing civilizations" particularly the Islamic civilization, characterise the contemporary world. In response to Samuel Huntington's piece 'The Clash of Civilizations?', Dr. Said unravels some of the errors, absurdities and lack of scholarly research in the piece.
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