Ansar Abbasi, Shahid Masood, Hamid Mir, and Shaheen Sehbai, will you read Edward Said and be ashamed of yourselves?: The Public Role of Writers and Intellectuals By Edward Said In everyday usage in the languages and cultures with which I am familiar, a “writer” is a person who produces literature–that is, a novelist, poet, dramatist. I think it

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