Part 3 • Islam and the West

By on    Farhang Jahanpour, History, Iran, MIDDLE EAST, Middle East conflict formation, TFF BLOG, TFF global posts 2018  

Part 3 • Islam and the West

    By Farhang Jahanpour September 17, 2018 1. Islam as the new post-Cold War enemy The journalistic attitudes towards Islam that we referred to above have their counterparts in the academic writing on the Middle East and Islam. In recent years there have been many academic writings portraying Islam as the new enemy of […]

Edward Said On Orientalism

By on    Civilisation and philosophy, Conflict - violence and war, CULTURE, Palestine and Israel, Psychology - war and peace, Sociology, US Empire decline  

Edward Said On Orientalism

  By Edward Said Edward Said’s book “Orientalism” has been profoundly influential in a diverse range of disciplines since its publication in 1978. In this engaging (and lavishly illustrated) interview he talks about the context within which the book was conceived, its main themes and how its original thesis relates to the contemporary understanding of […]

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