Requiem for Gaza
2025 Edward Said Memorial Lecture
The 2025 Edward Said Memorial Lecture, titled Requiem for Gaza will be delivered by former Foreign Correspondent and Pulitzer Prize-winner, Chris Hedges.
Tickets can be purchased here: https://events.humanitix.com/edward-said-memorial-lecture-chris-hedges
Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize winner, best-selling author and former Foreign Correspondent for the New York Times.
He spent two decades covering wars including the conflicts in El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua. An Arabic speaker, he spent seven years in the Middle East, much of that time in Gaza. He later covered the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo.
He is the author of 16 books, including several New York Times best sellers. His latest is A Genocide Foretold. He is at work with the cartoonist Joe Sacco, author of Palestine and Footnotes in Gaza, on a book based on the accounts of survivors of the genocide they have interviewed in the Middle East. Hedges has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University and the University of Toronto. He has taught students in the New Jersey prison system working towards their college degree from Rutgers University since 2013.
Hedges hosts The Chris Hedges Report. His show, and his writings, are available on chrishedges.substack.com
Edward W. Said (1935-2003)
Edward Wadie Said (1935-2003) was a Palestinian-American literary theorist and one of the most articulate and visible advocates of the Palestinian cause. He taught English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Before his death in 2003, Professor Said was seen as one of the leading literary critics of the 20th century, and described by many as an 'intellectual superstar' in the United States.
The annual Edward Said Memorial Lecture was inaugurated in 2005.
