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Students commemorate Palestinian leader’s legacy
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HE Palestinian national anthem echoed through Jack Adams Hall last Thursday, as SF State hosted its sixth annual celebration of the campus mural honoring the late Edward Said, one of the most peace in the Middle East. The Palestinian cultural mural, along with a mixture of images related struggle. “Edward Said has created a space phobia and anti-Palestinian sentiment that happens in the academy and media and we thought he was a perfect person to honor,” said Jackie Husary, an SF
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State international relations graduate. The celebration took place
ently biased against Arabic cultures. Because of this, the mural faced resistance since its inception in 2006. “A lot of people were arguing that
commemorated Said, sang and read Arabic poetry.
mural on this campus would automatically be something that is against Jews,
in Jack Adams Hall, where community leaders, General Union of Palestine Students (GUPS) members and students held a banquet to remember Said and Palestinian resistance while honoring the mural and the struggles that came with its creation. Said was a Palestinian Christian born in Jerusalem who became a professor at Columbia College where
truth,” said Charlie El-Qare, SF State alumnus and former GUPS president. Former SF State President Robert
literature. Said is known for his published work “Orientalism,” in which he arthe East through is tied directly to colonial ideas, and therefore, is inher-
for the mural early 2006 because he
State represented. ing Palestinian culture than to continue Susan Greene, one of the muralists and a former SF State professor.
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