Books about the Middle East (Book Guide): Orientalism, Funding Evil, Democracy and the Common Wealth, Our Last Best Chance, No God But God

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (books not included). Pages: 25. Chapters: Orientalism, Funding Evil, Democracy and the Common Wealth, Our Last Best Chance, No god but God, The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East, Iran: A People Interrupted, Engaging the Muslim World, Alms for Jihad, Six Days of War, For Lust of Knowing, Power, Faith and Fantasy, American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us, Culture and Conflict in the Middle East, Celsius 7/7, The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism, Race and Slavery in the Middle East, History of the Arab Peoples, Overthrow, Postcolonial Theory and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, The Siege of Mecca, Jihad and Genocide, The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations, From the Holy Mountain, The First Crusade: A New History, War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You to Know, Eight Months on Ghazzah Street, The Dream Palace of the Arabs, The Arabs in History, Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life, The Forever War, Against Us: The New Face of America's Enemies in the Muslim World, History of Syria: including Lebanon and Palestine, The New Crusade: America's War on Terrorism. Excerpt: Orientalism is a book published in 1978 by Edward Said that has been highly influential and controversial in postcolonial studies and other fields. In the book, Said effectively redefined the term Orientalism to mean a constellation of false assumptions underlying Western attitudes toward the Middle East. This body of scholarship is marked by a subtle and persistent Eurocentric prejudice against Arabo-Islamic peoples and their culture. He argued that a long tradition of romanticized images of Asia and the Middle East in Western culture had served as an implicit justification for European and the American colonial and imperial ambitions. Just as fiercely, he denounced the practice of Arab elit...