“To look at Islam through western lens is like looking at the sky through a woodworm's eyes.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Orientalism is after all a system for citing works and authors . __ Orientalism” — Edward W. Said Copy Share Image
There is an orientalism in the most restless pioneer, and the farthest west is but the farthest east. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“In a sense the limitations of Orientalism are, as I said earlier, the limitations that follow upon disregarding, essentializing, denuding the humanity… — Edward W. Said Copy Share Image
I emphasize in it [my Orientalism] accortdingly that neither the term Orient nor the concept of the West has any ontological stability;… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Tofu and futons. The adepts of Orientalism seem to spend most of their lives reclining. They can't quite summon the energy to… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“it is not ‘Eurocentrism’ or (anti-)‘Orientalism’ to say that the rise of Western civilization is the single most important historical phenomenon of… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
'Orientalism' has successfully built my critical awareness to question and see the big picture of knowledge, perspective or idea from a Western… — Okky Madasari Copy Share Image
“Instead of Orientals being the passive objects of the Western gaze, we must study the West. The way Orientals saw it must… — Hasan Hanafi Copy Share Image
Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also being… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love. — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
While [European] national cultures were concocted to distinguish one economic unit of capital from another, civilizational thinking was invented to unify these… — Hamid Dabashi Copy Share Image
Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient—dealing with it by making statements about it,… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Edward Said talks about Orientalism in very negative terms because it reflects the prejudices of the west towards the exotic east. But… — Craig Thompson Copy Share Image
Maybe we need to start with the rethinking of what is "west" and what is "non-west." It seems to me that there… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special,… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
“I believe that reappropriation can be a powerful tool for creating social change. Sometimes, things like irony, satire, or humor are more… — Simon S. Tam Copy Share Image
“I got a call froma cynical young American journalist...You know the sort. He's lived in the Middle East for a little over… — Amy Mowafi Copy Share Image
The sense of Islam as a threatening Other - with Muslims depicted as fanatical, violent, lustful, irrational - develops during the colonial… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
“Outside the Gutters of West (Sonnet 2679) If you grew up with western media, you get brainwashed into asking, why are most… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Every writer on the Orient (and this is true even of Homer) assumes some Oriental precedent, some previous knowledge of the Orient,… — Edward W. Said Copy Share Image
The Orient that appears in Orientalism, then, is a system of representations framed by a whole set of forces that brought the… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
“Modern Orientalism embodies a systematic discipline of accumulation. Far from this being exclusively an intellectual or theoretical feature, it made Orientalism tend… — Edward W. Said Copy Share Image
“My studio team and I approached the creation of this series with enthusiasm, wit, sincerity and sometimes more than a dash of… — Waswo X Waswo Copy Share Image
“After two years' absence she finally returned to chilly Europe, a trifle weary, a trifle sad, disgusted by our banal entertainments, our… — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
“At this point, the sequence of my memories is disrupted. I sank into a chaos of brief, incoherent and bizarre hallucinations, in… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
“Ed Lim’s daughter, Monique, was a junior now, but as she’d grown up, he and his wife had noted with dismay that… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
I think it is less the limited amount of information than the filters that information about the Middle East must pass through… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
Nothing like this has been attempted before. (...) It might be called a literary Porto Alegre. That implies a beginning, with much… — Perry Anderson Copy Share Image
There had been observed in this country certain streams of influence which are causing a marked deterioration in our literature, amusements, and… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
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