Edward Said - Orientalism

[Mujib]

The great literary theorist Edward Said

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[*Zohra*]

He was a genius.

He wrote the book Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World in the 80s about the portrayal of the Iranians in the media but if you read it now, it's very similar to how Muslims are portrayed after 9/11. Not much has changed.

[Whisper]

"To produce knowledge you have to have the power to be there and see in expert ways things that the natives themselves can't see."

Very interesting, thank you.