Edward Said Papers, 1940s-2006

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Series VI: Audiovisual Materials, 1977-2004

This series is closed for digitization. kws 2024-09-10

This subseries contains audiocassettes, audio reels, and videotapes. These are primarily of appearances, conferences, and interviews featuring Said.


Subseries VI.1: Video, 1981-2004



Box 184 Item 1 Hardtalk: Sheik Hamad Bin Jassem / Edward Said, 2002 September 25, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 184 Item 2 Edward Said: On Orientalism an ideal introduction to the work of one of the century's leading cultural analysts, 1998, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Commercially produced.


Box 184 Item 3 Edward Said in Lecture: The myth of 'the clash of civilization ', 1998, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Commercially produced.


Box 184 Item 4 Washington D.C. Version #2, undated, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 184 Item 5 VPRO Diogenes Band 92/956, undated, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Progr. Diogenes-Interview E. Said

... For Steven de Winter


Box 184 Item 6 University of Toronto Spring Convocation #2 June 6, 2000 p.m. Program Diogenes, Interview Edward Said, 2002, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 184 Item 7 Palestine Palestine by Dominique Dubosc, undated, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 184 Item 8 "A line in the sand, war or peace?" ABC News special, 1991 January 14, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 184 Item 9 World Monitor Sunday, 1991 February 20, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 184 Item 10 MER # 48,#49, #50, #51 Prof. Edward Said, undated, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Mid-East Realities MER # 48,#49, #50, #51 Prof. Edward Said "Clash of Civilization" Part 1-4


Box 184 Item 11 Edward Said: In the shadow of the west, circa 1983, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 184 Item 12 Professor Said Israel TV interview, undated, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 184 Item 13 The Late Show, 1993 September 21, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 184 Item 14 Selves and Others: A Portrait of Edward Said, circa 2004, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Produced by Salem Brahimi; Directed by Emmanuel Hamon


Box 184 Item 38 Selves and Others: A Portrait of Edward Said, Wamip Films, circa 2004, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 184 Item 15 World Monitor 7/24, Edward Said, undated, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 184 Item 16 60 Minutes Segment on Palestine / Israel, undated, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 184 Item 17 Jennings – A line in the sand 1276, 1990 September 22, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 184 Item 18 Edward Said - The Idea of Empire, circa 1993, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Francis Hanly and Tim May, directors


Box 184 Item 22 Arena - Edward Said - The Idea of Empire, circa 1993, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 184 Item 19 and 24 The Exiles, Edward Said, 1988 June 27, 2 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 184 Item 20 Charlie Rose. Edward Said, Daniel Barenboim, and Avery Dulles, 2001 March 9, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 184 Item 21 and 23 A Conversation with Edward Said, 1995, 2 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 184 Item 25-28, 37 In search of Palestine, 1998, 5 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 184 Item 29-30 In search of Palestine - BBC, 1998 May 17, 2 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 184 Item 31-33 In search of Palestine, 1998 May 17, 3 videocassettes (VHS)

1 VHS No Sound; 1 VHS Original


Box 184 Item 34-36 Music and society with Daniel Barenboim and Edward Said #1-3, New School, 2002 October 1, 3 videocassettes (VHS)



Box 185 Item 1 The Arabs "the shadow of the west" written and narrated by Edward Said, circa 1983, 1 videocassettes (U-matic)


Box 185 Item 2 The Arabs "The shadow of the west", 1983 August 19, 1 videocassettes (U-matic)


Box 185 Item 3 Mon - Nightlive - Arafat Visa, 1988 November 28, 1 videocassettes (U-matic)


Box 185 Item 4 View Point (ABC), 1981 November 12, 1 videocassettes (U-matic)


Box 185 Item 5 University of Warrick, Degree Congregation, 2001 July 12, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 185 Item 6 Fundacion Principe de Asturias, Premios Principe de Asturias, Oviedo, 2002 October, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 185 Item 7 Multiple Identities: Encounters with Daniel Barenboim, 2002, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 185 Item 8 President's Lecture, Edward Said: "The Tragedy of Palestine" (Rice University, Baylor College of Medicine), 1998 March 26, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 185 Item 9 XXI Premio nonino "Risit d'aur", 1996, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 185 Item 10 Jonathan Dimbley, September 11, 2002, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 185 Item 11 Booknotes: Edward Said (C-SPAN), 2001 April 24, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 185 Item 12 Karim's Journey, Rushes Assembly (Allegro Films), 2003-06-22, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 185 Item 13 The National Arts Club 44th Annual Music Awards honoring Daniel Barenboim, 1999 October 11, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 185 Item 14 60 Minutes Profile of Daniel Barenboim, 1998 December 16, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

with note from Carolyn McEwen


Box 185 Item 15 Dangerous liason Fao: Zian Al Hasso, Channel Four Television Corporation, [2002] August 27, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 185 Item 16 University of Chicago – Sora H. Schaffner Lecture "Private history, public memory " A panel discussion with Edward Said, Homi K. Bhabha, and Rashid Khalsdi, 2000 May 16, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 185 Item 17 1986 MESA Conference. Panel 83: Special Session – The Scholars, The Media and the Middle East, 1986, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 185 Item 18 This Week with David Brinkley, 1988 November, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 185 Item 19 Ponzer/Donahue, 1994 March 27, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 185 Item 20 Nike / Said, undated, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 185 Item 21 Edward Said Int. "Israel Torture,", undated, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 185 Item 22 The Late Show, 1990 June 9, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 185 Item 23 Edward Said on Charlie Rose, 1999 October, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 185 Item 24 الإرهاب والكباب (Terrorism and Kebab), 1992, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 185 Item 25 BBC Resources, Strange New World: The Battle of Ideas, 2002, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 185 Item 26 The Promised Land, undated, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 185 Item 27 Newsmatter Sunday CNN, 10:30am, 1988 January 3, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 185 Item 28 University of Montana, Mansfield Center Conference Television Roundtable, 1994 October 23, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 185 Item 29 The 7th Seo Nam Distinguished Lecture, Dr. Edward Said, Korea, 1995 May 29, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 185 Item 30 Talking Liberties, Edward Said, Wall to Wall, undated, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 185 Item 31 Walker Ames Lecture Series: Palestine, Iraq and U.S policy, 2003 May 8, 1 videocassettes (VHS)



Box 186 Item 1 OTR Productions, Karen Sheehan Pell, Director, undated, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 186 Item 2 Gulf Between Us, undated, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 186 Item 3 Allyn Conwell, Master. 7 Min July 1st with Paul Findley Event, 30 min Aug 6, Rodger Gray, Ch. 11, undated, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Gassan Dwairy


Box 186 Item 4 The World This Week, 1992 August 22, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 186 Item 5 Bookmark--Jonathon Miller/ Episode #314, undated, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 186 Item 6 Late Show: What Is to be Done, 1992 February 18, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 186 Item 7 Arena-Flextech - The Frame, Programme 27 parts 1&2 comp, 1998 March 2, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 186 Item 8 [Title in Arabic], Candidates Forum of the Board of Education (Sent by Hassan al Labban), 2000 April 13, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 186 Item 9-10 Relative Values, BBC Music and Arts, 1991 August 22, 2 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 186 Item 11 From San Francisco to Beirut Sample and ABC Sample, undated, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 186 Item 12 Rosau Havalier, Wüwr Staatsaper, 1994 March 24, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 186 Item 13 Children of Fire (BBC), undated, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 186 Item 14 Saturday Banquet 1991 Convention May 2-5, 1991 May 2-5, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 186 Item 15 1 PTTV Sampler – 2 Rereading the Dragon, undated, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 186 Item 16 Israel: The Price of Victory, PBS Frontline Documentary (June 2, 1987) and Six Days Plus Twenty Years: A Dream is Dying, NBC News documentary (July 1, 1987), 1987 June-July, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 186 Item 17 Götterdämmerung Act + Intro/No.24, 1990, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 186 Item 18-23 [Unlabeled], undated, 6 videocassettes (VHS)


Subseries VI.2: Audio, 1977-2002


Box 186 Gauss Seminar, Edward Said, Princeton University, 1977 April 14-May 5, 4 open reel audiotapes (1/4")



Box 183 After Orientalism: A Conference on the Work of Edwards Said, 1996, 14 audiocassettes

Day 1 Tape 1-7 (Copy 3); Day 2 Tape 1-7 (Copy 3)


Box 183 The Bean Press, 1993, 1 audiocassettes

Editor: Morris Freedman. Narrator: Edwin N. Meserve. In Honor of our veterans.



Box 187 Said/Takkieddine at Miller Theatre, 1993 April 27, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Said/Miller. Original Master (2 of 2), 1993 April 27, 1 digital audio tapes


Box 187 Where Corals Lie. Y. Menuhin and Edward Said, ICA, 1990 July 20, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case A AAUG 26th Convention, Washington D.C., 1993 October, 3 audiocassettes

Tape 1: Message-PLO (+ Hala Maksoud), H. Sharabi, Constantine Zurayk, Edward Said about Shafik Al-Hout.

Tape 3: Sunday Morning 24 August 93 Washington


Box 187 Case A AAUG, 1997, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case A Phillip Davis: The Pillars of Prometheus, Part 13-14, 1994-1995, 2 audiocassettes

Part 13-14 with Simon Cuff and Deborah Makepiece.


Box 187 Case A Phillip Davis: The Pillars of Prometheus, Part 13-14, 1994-1995, 2 digital audio tapes


Box 187 Case A 1993 Reith Lectures: no. 1-6, 1993, 3 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case A Reith Lectures Interview: Edward Said and James Naughtie, 1993-06-16, 1 audiocassettes

Producer: Anne Winder


Box 187 Case A MEI: Palestinian Poetry w/out tag, undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case A MEI: Special Series #6, undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case A #654 "Beyond the Culture Wars", 1993, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case A #682 "New Southerners" (1) Allan Guganus, 1993, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case A Musical Exmaples A-J/Medea by M. Theodorakis, undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case A Musical Exmaples for Electra, undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case A C. Black Reads "Telescope and Islands", 1981, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case A C. Black Reads "The Waking Passenger", 1986, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case A C. Black Reads "Owls Bay In Babylon", 1988, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case A Edward Said Iowa City Lecture, 1991-09-25, 2 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case A Authors in Focus, undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case A Agenda, undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case A Edward W. Said Interviews, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Side A: Interview with Isreali journalist. Side B: Interview with NPR.


Box 187 Case A Edward Said Interview, New York, with David Barsamian, 1991-10-08, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case A Print the Legend: Programme 2, 1995-11-24, 10:00-0:30, 1 audiocassettes

Radio 4. Producer: Louise Swan. Pres: Christopher Frayling.


Box 187 Case A Surface Tension, 1987-02-05, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case A Tibetan Music Interview with Dalai Lama, undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case A Women and [Idealism?]; Classes in [Modern Production?], undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case A Sahl/Yard John Grace Ranter, 1996-10-28, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case A Inside the Music (WNCN 104FM), undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case A Richard Strauss, undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case A Beatrice Chancy-Rolfe and Clarke, 1999 August, 1 audiocassettes

Side A: Beatrice Chancy Opera in four acts, music: James Rolfe, Libretto: George E. Clarke, Production: Queen of Puddings Music Theatre, Toronto Ontorio August 1999.

Side B: Beatrice Chancy conclusion, Songs…


Box 187 Case A Analysis - All Right Now?, 1999-08-09, 1 audiocassettes

Presenter: Isabel Hilton


Box 187 Case A Simon Studio Presents "Bernard's Farewell", undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case B Fantasie for Piano Solo by Susan Blanstern (1920), Sally Pinkas Piano, undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case B NBC in Lebanon: A Study in Misrepresentation, circa 1983, 1 audiocassettes

Written/Dir. Peter Emanuel Goldman with Anthony King and Cissy Smith


Box 187 Case B Propagande Zioniste in US [Moylensole la circonremir?]-Exposer; Ideas-Propositions Apres Algea etc…, 1988-11-16, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case B Edward Said-Insight, Matthew Rothchild, Editor of the Progressive, 1996-08-30, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case B Chicago Symphony Orchestra-Pension Fund Concert, 1996 January, 1 audiocassettes

All Mozart, 2 Piano Sonata, 3 Piano Concerto. Barenboim/Lupu/Bashkirova


Box 187 Case B LBC "Norman and Joan Snow" Joan Peters, Norman Finkelstein, 1985-02-26, 11:00 GMT, 1 audiocassettes

London Broadcasting Co.


Box 187 Case B Said/Davidson, undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case B Palestine and the Current Mideast Crisis-Boulder, 1990-09-26, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case B J. C. Hurewitz: Media and 1982 War, 1983, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case B A Peace in Progress; Charles and James Wine, 1986, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case B BBC [Title In Arabic], 1998 December, 1 audiocassettes

From Ali Asaad


Box 187 Case B Making Contact--Elusive Peace: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case B The Case for Palestine, 1991 December, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case B Palestinian They Remain, by Judith Pierce, 1984, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case B Poems from the Herald, undated, 2 audiocassettes

Tape 1 Side A: Prologue; To Merlin; Going Home; Metamorphosis. Side B: Stranger Fruit; Gift from Chinese. All pieces composed and recorded by Jennifer O'Neal.

Tape 2 Side A: Palestine is a Woman Doctor's Dilemma; Bubba Don't Know Balfour North Coast Flowers; Avalon; Improbable. Side B: A Call to Arms. All pieces composed and recorded by Jennifer O'Neal.


Box 187 Case B The Herald Takes On the Scholar (3); The End of the Book (4), undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case B The Herald's Favorite Feel Good Songs (For Troubled Times), undated, 1 audiocassettes

(Eric and Sweet Baby Can Say It Better than Anybody, Huh?)


Box 187 Case B What's the Word? (Modern Language Association of America) #4, 6, 7, 9 , 94, undated, 5 audiocassettes

#4 Censorship: How Does Literature Survive?; #6 Preservation of the Book and Public Libraries; #7 Shakespeare Then and Now; #9 The Bible as Literature; #94 Recent Nobel Prize Winners, Producer: Sally Placksin.


Box 187 Case B Conversation with Barenboim and Edward W. Said, 1998 October 8, 10, 12, 3 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case B CSO - Fidelio, 1998 May 26, 4 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case B Le Rythme Et La Raison (France Culture), 1997 September-October, 5 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case C Interview. Weekend Edition. National Public Radio, 2002 June 23, 1 audiocassettes

Program introduction, Middle East history lesson. Edward Said, Interview with host Lyn Neery.


Box 187 Case C Randy Newman-Bad Love; Philip Glass -La Belle at la Bete, undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case C Empire, Presenter: Peter Jay and Producer: Philip Sellars, 1998, 2 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case C Israel Symphony Plays Wagner. Palestine on NPR, circa 2001 February 17, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case C Wagner in Israel, Part II, NPR, 2001 February 17, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case C Democracy Now! Interview with Edward W. Said, 2001 March 21, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case C Democracy Now! Address at Chapman University, 2002 May, 1 audiocassettes

Pacifica Radio. Hosted by Amy Goodman. 1. Report of international news including U2's Bono and Treasury Secretary O'Neill in Uganda. 2. Gideon Levy report of killing of Palestinian farmer's family, from Ha'aretz, 17 May 2002. 3. Address by Edward Said at Chapman University, Orange, California, May 2002. Side II: Edward Said speech alone.


Box 187 Case C Responses to Said Interview on NPR, undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case C Meridian Round Table: Edward Said and Journalism (BBC World Service), 2000 November 6-7, 1 audiocassettes

Presenter: Harriett Gilbert. Producer: Assiya Lodhi.


Box 187 Case C Letters: Email and Meditation, undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case C Woleet Abdu Salaan, undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case C Dean's Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities. Dr. Edward W. Said "Timeliness and Lateness: Health and Style", 2000 December 12, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case C Karim Sulayman, undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case C Alberto Cortez "Sabra y Chatila", undated, 1 audiocassettes

Side 1 of Castillos en el Aire (1983); "Sabra y Chatila" last song of side 1


Box 187 Case C Edward Said Interview with Andy O'Mahony, undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case C Kan'an Makkiyyah at Columbia University, 1992 Spring, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case C Elegia. Trio for Violin, Violoncello and Piano (Wisam Gibran), 1993, 1 audiocassettes

Violin: N. Kajukhar. Violoncello: V. Sokolsky. Piano: S. Uspensky. Composer: Wisam Gibran. Record: Radio-Moscow, 1993. (Copy to E. Said)


Box 187 Case C National Public Radio Interview: Edward W. Said Interviewed by Scott Simon, Weekend Morning Edition, Saturday, 1999 November 6, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case C WNYC: Edward Said: Blaming the Victims, February 9th, no year, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case C Assorted Palestinian Music, undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case C Hugh Downs on Israel: When Friends Go Mad, 1991 April, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case C [Pal-Esr?], undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case C [Unlabeled], undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case C Elegy to the End of the Cold War; Moods and Expressions. By Marcus Raskin, undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case C Greg Murphy. One for the Money, 1999, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case C James Joyce's Chamber Music, Musical Settings by G. Molyneux Palmer. Robert White, Tenor; Samuel Sander, Piano, 1993, 1 audiocassettes

Commercially produced. Unopened.

G Molyneux Palmer (Geoffrey Molyneux) 1882-1957. Bloomington : Indiana University Press ©1993


Box 187 Case C ULYSSES' GAZE - FILM BY THEO ANGELOPOULOS, 1995, 1 audiocassettes

Commercially produced. Unopened.


Box 187 Case C Britten, Bartók, Stravinsky: Works for 2 Pianos, Sviatoslav Richter , Vassili Lobanov, 1988, 1 audiocassettes

Commercially produced


Box 187 Case C Speak Up, 1989 October, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case C Children of the Intifadah. Mustafa el-Kurd, circa 2012, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case C Freedom Fighters, Gwrthryfelwyr. Côr Cochion Caerdydd, undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case C [Title in Arabic: Arabic Music Evening, Lebanese Music Ensemble, by Selim Sahab], undated, 2 audiocassettes


Box 187 Case C [Title in Arabic: Beirut Band, Evening of Arabic Music 82, by Selim Sahab]


Box 187 Case C Songs from Palestine: The Dreams of My People. Rima Nasir Tarazi, Tania Tamari Nasir, undated, 1 audiocassettes