Edward Said in Japanese

An example of Said's "travelling theory" perhaps.

A Japanese director has released a documentary about the late Edward Said, the Palestinian-American intellectual and advocate for the Palestinian cause.

"Fighting the jihad with the pen is the same as dying for the jihad," says Mahmoud, a young Lebanese man in the opening minutes of Out of Place, which is dedicated to Said.

The film by veteran Japanese director Makoto Sato retraces the late professor's steps through Lebanon, Israel, the West Bank, Egypt, and the United States, and it is as much about Said's life as it is about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Sato shot almost 300 hours of footage over a year to compile the 137-minute film, spending time on both sides of the conflict:

With a Palestinian family in the Ein el-Hilweh camp in Lebanon, residents of the Kibbutz Dan in Israel, Israeli teenagers as well as Palestinian tobacco growers in the segregated Galilean town of Ma'alot-Tarshiha.

al Jazeera