Said’s Palestinian-exile biography was partly fabricated and exposed in 1999

Evidence

Until 1999 most of Said’s readers were under the impression that he was a Palestinian exile, having grown up in Jerusalem until, at the age of twelve, he and his family had to flee to Cairo and the state of Israel was established. However, in 1999 the Jewish scholar Justus Reid Weiner published an article in Commentary entitled ‘“My Beautiful Old House” and Other Fabrications by Edward Said’, in which, among other things, he queried Said’s credentials as a Palestinian. Weiner had spent several years researching Said’s youth and his article was based on eighty-five interviews. — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 554

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth verifying the specifics of Weiner’s findings against Said’s own Out of Place memoir.
• XREF: connects to: One false memoir triggered two decades of false ritual-abuse accusations — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 276