Saudi media against Edward Said. This is what I need now. The vulgar right-wing pro-Wahhabi fanatics offering an evaluation of the late Edward Said. Here, the right-wing Iranian pro-Shah neo-con, Amir Taheri, evaluates Edward Said, and decides that he was more a political activist than an academic. And I hereby declares Amir Taheri to be more a right-wing propagandist than anything else.