Lectures by Edward Said
 

The Reith Lectures | Edward Said: Representations of the Intellectual (1993)

You can listen to the lectures also on BBC Radio 4.

 

"The Myth of the 'Clash of Civilizations" at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1996)

Video and transcript provided by the Media Education Foundation.

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. Edward Said, late Columbia professor rips Huntington's thesis to shreds.