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The Burkle Forum will hear Columbia University Professor Edward Said February 20th at 4:00 pm in ROYCE HALL. (moved from Schoenberg Hall to ROYCE HALL)

Edward Said, author of the classic and provocative Orientalism, will speak on the topic "Memory, Inequality, and Power: Palestine and the Universality of Human Rights." His visit to UCLA is sponsored by the Ronald W. Burkle Center for International Relations as part of its Burkle Forum for prominent speakers.

Edward Said is a professor of English literature at Columbia University and a prominent spokesman and advocate of the Palestinian and Arab causes. Professor Said has called the Oslo agreement "an instrument of Palestinian surrender."

Professor Said obtained his B.A. from Princeton, and his Ph.D. from Harvard. He has been teaching at Columbia University since 1963, and is now University Professor of English and Comparative Literature. His books have been translated into 26 languages. He writes monthly columns for Al-Hayat (Lebanon) and Al-Ahram (Egypt), is a regular contributor to newspapers in France, Italy, Sweden, Britain, Spain, the Arab world, Pakistan, India, and Japan, and is music critic of The Nation magazine.

The Burkle Center will host a reception following the lecture.