The manner in which this split has been imagined and represented in Western civilization has been the subject of intense cross-disciplinary scrutiny, much of it under the rubric of "orientalism." This ...

Edward W. Said was a linguistic virtuoso, and his theory of Orientalism is far too erudite, complex and nuanced for shorthand definitions. He wrote contrapuntally, thought in long circles and ...

Edward Said, (1935 – 2003) was a Palestinian-American academic, literary critic, political activist, and musician. As a professor of literature at Columbia University, he was among the founders of ...