BEIRUT, Oct 2: The Palestinian-American writer and intellectual Edward Said, who died last week in New York of leukemia, will be buried in the mountains of Lebanon, a close friend said on Thursday.

“Edward Said wished to be buried in Arab soil, and had chosen Lebanon” as his final resting ground, Lebanese writer Elias Khoury said.

After cremation in the United States, Said’s ashes will be brought to Lebanon at the end of this month for interment in the Protestant cemetery in the village of Broummana, the home of his wife’s family located northwest of Beirut.

Born in west Jerusalem in 1935, Said spent his childhood in Cairo and later settled in the United States. But he often vacationed with his family in the Lebanese mountain village of Dhour Choueir.—AFP