The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations

Edward Saïd (1935–2003) was a Palestinian-American literary theorist, cultural critic, political activist, and controversial commentator on the Middle East. He was a distinguished and widely cited University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and is a founding contributor to ‘postcolonial theory’.

In 1993 Harvard Professor Samuel P. Huntington wrote an essay titled "The Clash of Civilizations?" and later he expanded into a book with the same title, but without the question mark. In this public lecture Said investigates and deconstructs Huntington’s claims and the main thesis of the book: