[3] In 2009, Said published the critically acclaimed memoir, A World I Loved: The Story of an Arab Woman by her mother Wadad Makdisi Cortas.

[4][citation needed] Said collaborated with Vanessa Redgrave to conceive and create a theatre production based on the memoir.

She serves in the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra (WEDO) which was founded by her husband Edward Said and the musician Daniel Barenboim, as well as Senza Frontiere in Italy and the Alumni Association of North America, American University of Beirut.

[6] She serves on the boards on several organisations including the Freedom Theatre in Jenin, Palestine and ArteEast in New York.

[7] 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.