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Edward Said and Middle Eastern studies in America
A 2017 interview on what went wrong in Middle Eastern studies.
Six (make that seven) greatest stories ever told about the Middle East
Martin Kramer names the seven most influential books on the Middle East.
Start with two Palestinians
Columbia's new Center for Palestine Studies makes it Bir Zeit-on-Hudson.
More Massad mystery at Harvard
In August 2006, I wrote a post entitled "Massad mystery at Harvard." There I asked why, for two years, Joseph Massad described his book Desiring Arabs as "forthcoming from Harvard University Press," only to announce that it would be published by the University of Chicago Press. I wrote the following: Last spring [2006], Columbia promoted …
Enough Said
Review by Martin Kramer of Robert Irwin, Dangerous Knowledge: Orientalism and its Discontents (Woodstock: Overlook Press, 2006). The review appeared in Commentary, March 2007. Posted retroactively at Sandbox. THE British historian Robert Irwin is the sort of scholar who, in times past, would have been proud to call himself an Orientalist. The traditional Orientalist was …
Hamas of the Intellectuals
Edward Said was no fool when it came to Hamas. Can't be said for the rest of the so-called Palestinian "intellectuals."
Edward Said, Malcolm Kerr, and Honors at AUB
On Saturday, the American University of Beirut (AUB) will hold its annual commencement, and will award honorary doctorates for the first time in over thirty years. Among the recipients: Edward Said. Edward Said is a big celebrity in Beirut, and AUB is his favorite theater. In 1999, he addressed 1,000 students there. "The atmosphere was …
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Edward Said and Twelve Disciples at Post-Orientalist Passover
Today, Columbia University marks twenty-five years to the publication of Edward Said's book Orientalism, with a day of lectures at the Casa Italiana. Twelve panelists and discussants will consider the book and its author, who will offer his own concluding remarks this evening. Don't expect a critical appreciation of Orientalism and its influence. These are …
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Saidiana
Here is interesting news about Edward Said, Columbia University's celebrity professor of English literature, Palestine, Islam, and what-have-you. Said has a long-standing connection to King's College, Cambridge. He has the status of a member, and has been an occasional visitor there, most recently this past fall. The College is a redoubt of the left. Its …
Edward Said CRASSHes
Edward Said, celebrity professor and advocate for Palestine, has just ended a stretch at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities—acronym CRASSH—at Cambridge University in England. Between his lectures on "The Example of Auerbach's Mimesis" and "Return to Philology" (serious people never left it), Said huddled in his rooms to settle …
Terrorism? What terrorism?!
This op-ed by Martin Kramer appeared in the Wall Street Journal on November 15, 2001. Posted retroactively at Sandbox. The Middle East Studies Association of North America convenes Saturday in San Francisco. Its membership includes 2,600 "experts" on the Middle East, most of them based in universities. On Sept. 21, MESA's board issued a statement …
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