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Imperial Continuity: Palestine, Iraq and US foreign Policy

Imperial Continuity: Palestine, Iraq and US foreign Policy

Here Edward Said talks about the sheer violation of human rights with ‘the establishment of by force of a Jewish state on a land that was populated by the Arabs. This process began in the early 19th century culminated with the war between the Arabs and Jews in 1947, in which the Arabs lost. It […]

September 19, 2014
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Said : Short Note on Orinetalism

Said : Short Note on Orinetalism

Said pithily summarizes what he wrote in Orientalism. He says, “The idea behind Orientalism is to seek out the origin and coherence of the description of the Orient that began to appear in Europe in the 18th and early 19th century. That is different from the description of the Orient before. Orientalism  is about the […]

September 19, 2014
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Midnight’s Children Festival Events: “A Dialogue with Edward Said

Midnight’s Children Festival Events: “A Dialogue with Edward Said

In this footage where Edward Said talks with Prof Akeel Belgrami about Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, Edward’s quintessential method of literary criticism is unveiled. Since Edward is more concerned about the workings of power behind a literary work, he throws sharp questions about the representation of power in Rushdie’s book. “The brilliance of Rushdie’s work […]

September 19, 2014
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