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Orientalism
Said’s book became canonical in many Middle East Studies departments, pressuring students and professors to prove they were not Orientalists. Israel’s history was subjected to withering revisionism.
Michael B. Oren • Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
Edward Said’s Reflections on Exile and Other Essays
Shaul Magid • The Necessity of Exile
In 1984, Edward Said wrote a landmark essay, “Permission to Narrate,” in which he critiqued the Western media’s biased coverage of Israel-Palestine. Now @m7mdkurd picks up where Said left off in his own essay, “The Right to Speak for Ourselves. https://t.co/cOMiRdoIjo
The Nationx.com
RIP Noam Chomsky.
He’s contributed so much (formal grammars ftw!) but his Manufacturing Consent model of media is severely underrated and is crucial to understanding how the world works. https://t.co/1BVKkxZkux
Amjad Masadx.comSusan Sontag (from “Regarding the Pain of Others”):
“Being a spectator of calamities taking place in another country is a quintessential modern experience, the cumulative offering by more than a century and a half’s worth of those specialized tourists known as journalists. Wars are now also living room sights and sounds. Information about what’s
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