Arab Revolutions: Orientalism Reconsidered!


While following news stories of all the Arab revolutions whether in Arab or Western media, one can find Edward Said in the center of all of them. One just needs to have in mind Said’s wholehearted arguments around the themes related to these events like the question of democracy,Islam and so forth
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While following news stories of all the Arab revolutions whether in Arab or Western media, one can find Edward Said in the center of all of them. One just needs to have in mind Edward Said’s wholehearted arguments around the themes related to these events like the question of democracy, freedom, modernity, development, identity, Islam, Arabs, media so and so forth.

Of course a major characteristic given to this region in Orientalism’s narrative is unpredictability of attitudes and behavior of people living in this region because predictability is a symptom of rational thinking and reasoning and of course this is exclusively a Western trait that cannot be handled by Oriental mind.