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Name:	Edward Said, Ph.D. (1935 - 2003)
Title:	Professor of English and Comparative Literature Columbia University
Position:	Pro Bi-National State to the question "What are the solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?"
Reasoning:	"...it [the bi-national state] is the only solution that seems to take into account the reality of the two peoples who basically claim the same land." "Edward Said Proposes Bi-national State" Reuters 06/29/01
Credibility Ranking:	Experts: PhD's, JD's (lawyers), Judges, Members of Congress, Ambassadors, Council Generals, heads of government, members of legislative bodies with significant involvement in, or related to, the Palestinian/Israeli conflict.
Involvement:	Sterring Committee Member of The National Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation Prominent member of the Palestinian parliament-in-exile for 14 years "until he quietly stepped down in 1991"
Education:	Ph.D., Harvard M.A., Harvard B.A., Princeton
Affiliations / Honors:	Honorary Fellow of the Middle East Studies Association Sultan Owais Prize in honor of his life’s work, 1997
Contact Info:	Phone: n/a Fax: n/a E-Mail:   n/a Web Site: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/23/22/22.html
Other:	Select Publications: Culture and Resistance, 2003 The End of the Peace Process: Oslo and After, 2000 Out of Place: A Memoir, 1999 Peace and Its Discontents, 1996 The Politics of Dispossession, 1994 The Question of Palestine, 1979, 1992 Orientalism, 1979

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