Queer Studies Research Workshop: Jamie Currie, “In A Troubled Time: When Said met Genet.”
1032 Clemens Hall"Edward Said met the great French novelist only once, in Beirut in 1972. However, the presence (and absence) of the author haunts Said during the last decade of his life when he was battling with leukemia and obsessively preoccupied with questions of music. This was the period in which he founded the now-famous middle-eastern youth […]