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Edward Said on Orientalism

          on 'Orientalism': Edward Said
                     

A brief summary of Said's Interview

Edward Said's book 'Orientalism' has been profoundly influential in a diverse range of disciplines its publication in 1978. In this engaging interview, he talks about the context within which the book was conceived, its main themes and how its original thesis relates to the contemporary understanding of "the orient."

Orientalism is a revolutionary study middle east such a postcolonial they as well as the influence diverse English, anthropology critical, science and cultural studies. Orientalism tries the answer to the question of why we think 🤔 of the middle east like as they believe and act even though orientalism asks have to come to understand people, strangers, look difference by virtue of the colour of the skin.

Said argues that the western especially American understanding of the middle east as a place full of villains and terrorists ruled by Islamic fundamentalism produces a deeply distorted image of the diversity and complexity of millions of Arab peoples. One of the most aspects of Edward said has made clear is how the media misleads the non-orientals by representing a non-realistic image of the orient. To put it differently, what the Americans and Europeans see on tv or social media and read newspapers impacts their approximation of the 'other' as they start to misunderstand their culture and degrades them to non-humans, violent and war-ridden. The western express their point of view about the orient depending on their aspects of life as they see themselves as ideal human beings.

♣  on understanding Israel - Palestinian issue
                     

It's conflicting about Israel and Palestine. This conflict is often cast as a long term beef going back thousands of years and rooted in a clash between religion, but that's not quite true. What is true is that the conflict is immensely complicated, and just about everyone in the world has an opinion about it. One of the biggest myths about Israel - Palestine conflict is that it been going on for centuries, that this is all about ancient religious hatreds.

In fact, while religion is involved, the conflict is mostly about two groups of people who claim the same land. And it really only goes back about a century, to the early 1900s. At its heart, it is a conflict between two self-determination movement - the Jewish zionist project and the Palestinian nationalist project that lay claim to the same territory.

Also, we can't blame Britain for this whole mess. They definitely did have a part in the current mess but the rivalry between two ethnic groups had been going on long before and the Jews were planning on moving back. America was also backing the Jewish 🕎 🕍🔯  population after world war 2 for the financial support given to them by American🗽 jews in the war. So the conflict between Jews and Palestinians was really unavoidable regardless of how Britain divided the land.


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