Subhi Hadidi
Dissolved, on 25 September this, the ninth
anniversary of the departure of the thinker and critic Alvestini great Edward Said (1935, 2003); There is a lot of phenomena and facts that make us miss him year after year, in the humanities generally, the arts and life research and academic, then in International and Arab politics. But ... Not without misses some opponents, too, against the backdrop of various issues, including developments literary theory, and continuing influence that practiced by Said's works on successive generations of critics and theorists;, including the facts of current, belonging to 'Arab Spring', and the U.S. role in the region, and the Arab Israeli; return, as one has to wait, to Mtejelat 'West' and 'East', and Tnmitat Islam and Muslims, and these or those issues that is reminiscent of 'Orientalism', 1978, book Saeed months.
For the first example, alert bilateral Ephraim Karsh and Rory Miller that the impact happy to academic life in the West remains strong in his absence, as he was in life; still continue forums and conferences held in his honor, in the United States, Asia and Europe (and for some reason fell from regulation activities similar witnessed Africa, Latin America and Australia). What causes more narrow issued Karsh and Miller that a number of stars, such as Salman Rushdie and Vanessa Redgrave and Danny Glover, participate in these meetings; and join them from time to time 'Jews is good', as understood by the tone of bilateral, because they are on a feud with Zionism, such as critic Jacqueline Rose, historian Ilan Pappe.
For all this volunteer Karsh and Miller campaigns destruction, or rather re-destruction, personal late, great, based on the statements genius following: Said he wished to be remembered people telling the truth first, but ended up to the contrary because he did not stop 'fabricating' facts; and March hypocrisy about his childhood in Palestine before the establishment of the Jewish state, and posing as exiled Palestinian (hypothesis which had been launched by Israeli researcher Justus Reid Weiner in 1999, and finished to bang miserable); and accustomed to plagiarism and intellectual (the best examples of bilateral paragraph orphan from the statement of the Palestine Liberation Organization released in 1964!); not tolerant with opponents (like Paul Johnson, Daniel Pipes, Kanan Makiya!); Finally: quibble with a view to climb the ladder of academic and vocational (views happy in the positions of Jean-Paul Sartre of Arab-Israeli conflict, the occupation of Iraq, and novelist English Jane Austen!).
In a second example, stops this time when bar patent Muslims', sees Lee Smith that the position of the U.S. administration of the tape shameful because it takes into account the feelings of Muslims, and flattering extremists among them; but this insults the American citizen, because it violates freedoms provided for in the U.S. Constitution. The total is not a management position as expressed by Susan Rice, the U.S. delegate to the UN Security Council, and some U.S. embassies in the Middle East only a summary of thinking about the region extracted by U.S. President Barack Obama, himself, from one of the pages of 'Orientalism'. Smith writes: 'While, President Bush and Dick Cheney to professors from the likes of Bernard Lewis and Fouad Ajami to help them interpret the area, apparently in return that Obama has grabbed a page from the book of Edward Said', writes called.
Because our friend does not have proof of what he says, he goes to class broken hypotheses Next: Obama has studied at Columbia University during the 1981 1982 period, and thus' must have been aware of the existence of the Palestinian Professor famous American, we do not know whether had studied at the hands directly, because his notes for that period has not yet published. ' Or this: Did not talk, 1999, at a ceremony honoring Palestinian Professor Rashid Khalidi, a happy fellow and friend of Obama? Or this, the third: Did declares Obama, in a speech Cairo University in 2009: 'I consider it among my responsibility as President of the United States to fight all stereotypes negative about Islam, wherever they appear'; therefore, not falls concept of 'stereotypes' at the heart of theories Saeed against Orientalism?
It remains to be Smith, the owner of this Almtarhat genius, is senior editor of the weekly 'The Weekly Standard', a stronghold of neo-conservatives in the United States; and author of 'horse strongest: Power, Politics, and the clash of civilizations Arab', which is almost forbidden to the Arabs in a series of hypotheses racist Tnmaitih, implicitly and in a manner padded at times, explicitly or beauty without hesitation or phrase. He sees, for example, that the problem of the Arabs are not in the ruling dictatorships, but in the mini-dictatorships within each Arab family; and therefore do not benefit from the support of 'Arab Spring' because 'Arab winter' is coming after him, inevitably. Because mental purely tribal Bedouin Arab, they are betting only on the strongest horse, which in our time is not only the United States; thus Arabs to Aúdhun America in each case and fate, why the fuss in support Zaid rulers, or against Amr!
What are, then, that Obama will be a pupil happy? And how the incident, or the people, or humanity as a whole, that the U.S. demeaned horse ... Stronger?
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