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Mar 2023
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(Preview) Politics and Letters: Conor Mc...

SINA RAHMANI (@URORIENTALIST)
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An interview with Conor McCarthy about the life and work of the Palestinian literary critic and activist Edward Said.
 
Conor McCarthy is a Senior Lecturer at Maynooth University. His books include The Cambridge Introduction to Edward SaidModernisation, Crisis and Culture in Ireland 1969 - 1992. He has also edited The Revolutionary and Anti-Imperialist Writings of James Connolly 1893 - 1916.
 
I blog at https://aonchiallach.github.io
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