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Edward Said excerpts towards Sadik Al-Azm;
"For a scholar and thinker like yourself, to suggest such things is of course to lay yourself open to many worse imputations, for example, to being (literally) a willing, silent servant of the Syrian regime"

"For you Marx is what Khomeini is to his followers: you are in fact a Khomeini of the Left"

"I don’t think you’ve ever tangled with a polemicist of my sort: your attacks against the straw-men you catch with silly statements have gone unchallenged"

"Now who’s over-reacting? I said nothing in my letter about your person except your subservience to the regime, and I withdrew it immediately; my letter indicating or implying my superiority over you; what utter trash"

"Thanks for calling me an irritable professor: what should I call you, a dispassionate and olympian critic of everyone else’s mistakes? Ok—you’re a dispassionate and olympian critic of everyone else’s mistakes"

"I regret anything I said to you that may have seemed merely reactive (as opposed to accurate, as many of the things I said were) and abusive"

https://pastandfuturepresents.blogspot.com/2016/12/edward-saidsadik-al-azm-1980.html?m=1