Edward Said, a Palestinian-American scholar who passed away in 2003, was regarded as a model contemporary public intellectual. In his academic work, he criticized various forms of hegemony, and he was active politically, working on behalf of Palestinian independence.
已於 2003 年過世的美籍巴勒斯坦裔學者薩依德，是當代公認的公共知識分子典範，他在學術上批判各式霸權主義，政治上積極為巴勒斯坦獨立而奔走。