Palestinian Heritage Foundation Holds 17th Annual Banquet.

The article reports that the 17th anniversary banquet of the Palestinian Heritage Foundation, held on September 12, 2004 was devoted to a memorial for political activist Edward W. Said. Said's widow, Mariam, told the guests that her husband's political involvement began during the Vietnam War. Because his education had been Western, he re-educated himself by reading non-Western writers and learned to link the Palestinian issue to other struggles. Keynote speaker Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University and editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies, said it is natural for a community that has been subjected to racist hostility to be proud of its intellectuals.