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World Service,10 Dec 1999,4 mins

Said's Autobiography Out of Place

My Century

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Ahdaf Soueif has chosen the Palestinian academic Edward Said's autobiography Out of Place as her book of the 20th Century - she says it articulates beautifully the inner conflict between the Middle East and the West which she is also trying to express.

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