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Name
  
Najla Said

Movies
  
The Contestant

Role
  
Author

Parents
  
Edward Said

Aunts
  
Rosemarie Said Zahlan




Similar People
  
Edward Said, Mariam Said, Bill Cain, Liz Duffy Adams, Meghan Kennedy

Grandparents
  
Hilda Said, Wadir Said

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Najla Said (born 1974, Boston, Massachusetts, United States) is a Palestinian-American author, actress, playwright, and activist. Through her literary and academic work, Said has confronted racism, stereotyping, social and economic inequality, and among others, the specific challenges that face immigrant and second-generation Americans.

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Life

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She grew up on the Upper West Side. She graduated from the Chapin School and Princeton University and trained at The Shakespeare Lab at the Public Theatre. Her father was the noted postcolonial scholar and public intellectual Edward Said.

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In 2010, she featured in a one-woman Off Broadway play, Palestine.

Works

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  • Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family. Penguin Group US. 1 August 2013. ISBN 978-1-101-63215-4. 
  • "Najla Said: An Open Letter to Shakira: We Are Not All Israel". Guernica. June 24, 2011. 
  • References

    Najla Said Wikipedia