Behold the sexiness of  the late Edward Said (1935-2003)! Sociologist, Palestinian rights activist, and post colonial theorist.

Born in a Jerusalem that was then part of the British Mandate of Palestine, he was born into a prosperous Palestinian-Christian family who owned property in Cairo and was therefore not as affected when Israel was created as a state under UN declaration in 1948 and the Arab League declared war. This disinheritance would later affect his theories on Orientalism in Post Colonial Political and Social Theory. During his lifetime, Robert Fisk would describe him as “the Palestinian’s most powerful political voice”.