Mariam C. Said




Mariam Said


Mariam C. Said (Arabic: مريم سعيد‎) is a major force behind the newly established Barenboim-Said Academy (BSA) and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra (WEDO) that was co-founded in 1999 by her late husband Edward W. Said and Daniel Barenboim. Mrs. Said also serves as the Vice President of the Barenboim-Said Foundation USA.




Contents





  • 1 Biography


  • 2 Education activities


  • 3 West-Eastern Divan Orchestra & Barenboim-Said Academy


  • 4 Relevant publications and interviews


  • 5 References




Biography


Mariam C. Said was born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon. Mariam Said holds an undergraduate degree from the American University of Beirut (AUB) in Lebanon and two graduate degrees from Columbia University. For more than 20 years, she worked in the financial services industry in New York City.


In 2009, Mrs. Said published the critically acclaimed memoir, A World I Loved: The Story of an Arab Woman, by her mother Wadad Makdisi Cortas.[1][2] Mrs. Said collaborated with Vanessa Redgrave to conceive and create a theatre production based on the memoir. The success of its premier at the Brighton Festival in 2012 led to a performance at the Miller Theatre in New York. In July 2015, the production will be seen at the Spoleto Festival in Italy.[1]



Education activities


Mrs. Said serves on the board of The Barenboim-Said Music Centre Ramallah, Palestine. Currently she is on the advisory board of The Freedom Theatre in Jenin, Palestine, and ArteEast, a New York-based international non-profit organization that supports and promotes artists from the Middle East and its Diasporas. In addition, Mrs. Said is a founding member of the board of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and served on the Board of Directors of the Alumni Association of North America of the American University of Beirut.[3] She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Americans for Children of the Middle East, that works with its partner organization United Lebanon Youth Project (ULYP) on the BRIDGE program in its efforts to provide scholarships and university placements to bright young Palestinians from the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon.[4]



West-Eastern Divan Orchestra & Barenboim-Said Academy




Mariam Said and Daniel Barenboim


In recognition of her dedication to the continuing success of the WEDO, Mariam Said received an honorary doctorate from the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2014.[5] In a 2012 interview with the Wiener Zeitung she described the philosophy of the WEDO and the BSA as follows:


“Think of the principle of counterpoint: single voices are recognized as independent objects. The final result is harmony on a higher level. We are not a political, but a cultural and humanitarian project. Understanding is the start to reduce mistrust. We are the microcosm of a society that does not exist yet.”[6]



Relevant publications and interviews


  • "Mariam Said on the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra." PBS NewsHour, February 5, 2013: [1]

  • "Zeitgenossen. Mariam C. Said." Wiener Zeitung, September 28, 2013 [2]

  • "The World That Mariam Said Loved. Edward Said's Widow Collaborates With Vanessa Redgrave."Forward, December 15, 2012: [3]

  • "Welcoming address by Mariam Said at the Edward Said Memorial Conference", 15 April 2013, Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University: [4]

  • Interview with Ricardo Karam, April 4, 2014 [5]

  • Wadad Makdisi Cortas: “A World I Loved”. Edited by Mariam C. Said, with a foreword by Nadine Gordimer. New York 2009: Nation Books. .mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output .citation qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-maintdisplay:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em
    ISBN 978-1568584294

  • Mariam C. Said: “Barenboim-Said Foundation does not promote normalization.” Electronic Intifada, March 17, 2010. [6]

  • Mariam C. Said: Foreword, in: Edward W. Said. "On Late Style. Music and Literature Against the Grain." New York: Pantheon Books, 2006.


References




  1. ^ ab Furst, Joshua (December 15, 2012). "The World That Mariam Said Loved". Forward. Retrieved January 16, 2015.


  2. ^ Cassel, Matthew (November 4, 2012). "Book Review: "A World I Loved."". Electronic Intifada. Retrieved January 16, 2015.


  3. ^ "Mariam C. Said". Centre for the Humanities. Universiteit Utrecht. Retrieved January 16, 2015.


  4. ^ "The BRIDGE Program" (PDF). United Lebanon Youth Project. Retrieved January 16, 2015.


  5. ^ "Zeitgenossen. Mariam Said". West-Eastern Divan Orchestra News. August 6, 2014. Retrieved January 16, 2015.


  6. ^ Neumann, Gunther (May 13, 2008). "Zeitgenossen. Mariam Said". Wiener Zeitung. Retrieved January 16, 2015.









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