{"product_id":"out-of-place-2026-edition-with-introduction-by-hisham-matar","title":"Out of Place - with new introduction by Hisham Matar","description":"\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003eEdward Said’s beloved and enduring memoir, re-issued with a new introduction by Hisham Matar. An elegiac and urgent personal account of Said's early life, displacement, and formative years growing up between Jerusalem, Cairo, and Lebanon before moving to the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003eEdward Said experienced both British and American imperialism as the old Arab order crumbled in the late 1940s and early 1950s. This account of his early life reveals how it influenced his books \u003cem\u003eOrientalism\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCulture and Imperialism\u003c\/em\u003e. Edward Said was born in Jerusalem and brought up in Cairo, spending every summer in the Lebanese mountain village of Dhour el Shweir, until he was ‘banished’ to America in 1951. This work is a mixture of emotional archaeology and memory, exploring an essentially irrecoverable past. As ill health sets him thinking about endings, Edward Said returns to his beginnings in this personal memoir of his ferociously demanding ‘Victorian’ father and his adored, inspiring, yet ambivalent mother.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003eYou can support our work at PalFest by buying this book directly through our website \u0026amp; you can listen to a \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/thepalfestpodcast.podbean.com\/e\/tareq-baconi-and-saleem-haddad-in-conversation-live-from-ibraaz\/\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003ePalFest Podcast conversation\u003c\/a\u003e between Hisham Matar and Isabella Hammad on writing new introductions to Said’s work \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/thepalfestpodcast.podbean.com\/e\/tareq-baconi-and-saleem-haddad-in-conversation-live-from-ibraaz\/\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PalFest","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54169555304795,"sku":"Out of Place","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1038\/4723\/1835\/files\/out_of_place.png?v=1790765976","url":"https:\/\/shop.palfest.org\/products\/out-of-place-2026-edition-with-introduction-by-hisham-matar","provider":"The PalFest Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}