نجلاء سعيد
نجلاء إدوارد سعيد (born 1974) is an 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
Said grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.[1] Her father was the noted postcolonial scholar and public intellectual Edward Said and her mother is the writer and activist Mariam C. Said.[2] She graduated from the Chapin School and Princeton University and trained in acting at The Shakespeare Lab of the Public Theatre.
In 2013, Said discussed Arab identity politics with Salon magazine and her approaching of the subject in her book Looking for Palestine.[3]
Acting career
In 2010, Said featured in a one-woman off-Broadway play, Palestine.[4]
Said has appeared in films including My Love Affair with Marriage, as well as several US TV shows including New Girl, NCIS: New Orleans and New Amsterdam.[5]
Works
- Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family. Penguin Group US. August 1, 2013. ISBN 978-1-101-63215-4.
- "Najla Said: An Open Letter to Shakira: We Are Not All Israel". Guernica. June 24, 2011.
References
- ^ "From the Upper West Side to the Middle East: Najla Said on Her New Memoir, Looking for Palestine - Culture - Music, Movies, Art, Profiles, and More". Vogue.com. Retrieved November 6, 2013.
- ^ "He Said, She Said: Najla Said's "Looking for Palestine" - Los Angeles Review of Books". March 31, 2014. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
- ^ "Najla Said: "My Arab-American story is not typical in any way"". Salon magazine. July 28, 2013.
- ^ Felicia R. Lee (February 8, 2010). "Identity Found: On West Side via West Bank". The New York Times.
"Najla's play is important because it adds a personal dimension to the difficulties of communication in a life that has many different reference points," Mr. Barenboim said...
- ^ IMDB website, Retrieved 2023-05-17
External links
- 21st-century American dramatists and playwrights
- Living people
- 1974 births
- Writers from Boston
- Princeton University alumni
- Actresses from New York City
- American stage actresses
- American women dramatists and playwrights
- Actresses from Boston
- Writers from Manhattan
- 21st-century American actresses
- 21st-century American women writers
- Chapin School (Manhattan) alumni
- American writers of Palestinian descent
- Said family