Edward W. Said, a Columbia University professor, literary critic and a leading advocate in the United States of the Palestinian cause, has died, his editor at Knopf publishers said Thursday. He was 67.

Said died Wednesday night at a New York hospital, said editor Shelley Wanger. He had suffered from leukemia at least since the early 1990s.
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A great thinker. Author of Beginnings, Orientalism, and Culture and Imperialism, to name just a few.