Edward Said

Beneath Edward Said’s Confused Condemnations of Western Scholarship Lay His Own Insecurities

Disoriented.

Sameer Rahim
May 6 2021 12:01AM

When It Comes to Israel, Barack Obama’s Memoir Is Filled with Distortions

The Said-Khalidi school of history.

Michael W. Schwartz
Dec. 7 2020 12:01AM

A Great Essayist, Critic, and Scholar Evaluates the Real, and Imagined, Lessons of the Holocaust

In memoriam.

Edward Alexander
Aug. 24 2020 12:01AM

Rashid Khalidi’s New History of the Israel-Palestinian Conflict Opts for Lies and Distortions over Dispassionate Examination

“Another somewhat turgid recitation of the traditional Palestinian narrative.”

Benny Morris
April 8 2020 12:01AM

The Myth of the Nakba, and Its Consequences

Accusing the victims of becoming the executioners in order to play on European sympathies.

Shmuel Trigano
Dec. 16 2019 12:01AM

The Arab World Can’t Blame All of Its Problems on the West

Edward Said and honor killings.

Hussain Abdul-Hussain
Oct. 3 2019 12:01AM

The Many Deceits of Edward Said

And their anti-Israel consequences.

William D. Rubinstein
July 11 2019 12:01AM

How Edward Said’s Ideas Perverted the Study of Ancient Jewry

Jews were neither xenophobes nor perpetual victims.

Erich Gruen
Sept. 17 2018 12:01AM

The Origins of Western Scholarship of Islam Show What Edward Said Got Wrong

Orientalists at the Vatican.

Benedikt Koehler
June 12 2018 12:01AM

No, Zionists Didn’t Scuttle a Proposed Chair at a California State University

The protocols of the elders of Fresno.

Steven Lubet
Feb. 20 2018 12:01AM

How Orientalism Explains the Arab World and the Failure of the Peace Process

And how Edward Said’s Orientalism gets in the way.

Richard Landes
Dec. 23 2016 12:01AM

Bringing Scholarship Back to Middle East Studies

War on Error.

Jonathan Marks
Oct. 27 2016 12:01AM

Anti-Israel Academics’ Warped Assumptions about Sovereignty and Legitimacy

Trading John Locke for Edward Said.

Theodore Kupfer
June 16 2016 12:01AM

Why Middle East Studies Is a Mess, and Why It Matters

The legacy of Edward Said and his acolytes.

Michael Rubin
July 7 2015 12:01AM
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