 In 1998 , Said made In Search of Palestine ( 1998 ) , a BBC documentary film about Palestine past and Palestine present , in which he returned to the country from which he had emigrated to the U.S. in 1947 . In the company of his son , Wadie , Said revisited his places of boyhood , and confronted the Israeli injustices ( social and cultural ) meted out to ordinary Palestinians in the contemporary West Bank . Despite the social and cultural prestige usual to BBC cinema products in the U.S. , the documentary was never broadcast by any American television company . 
