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Edward Said

How Edward Said took intellectuals for a ride: The famous professor and Palestine advocate claimed that bigoted Western stereotypes about the Orient support imperialism. But Middle East scholar Robert Irwin proves it was Said who didn't have the full picture.; By Gary Kamiya Dec 6, 2006
Never the twain shall meet: "Occidentalism" offers a grand theory about why Arabs and Muslims feel the way they do about the West -- but ignores what the West has done to them.; By Christopher John Farah May 17, 2004
Osama University?: Neoconservative critics have long charged Middle Eastern studies departments with anti-American bias. Now they've enlisted Congress in their crusade.; By Michelle Goldberg Nov 6, 2003
On closer reading: At the fifth annual conference of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, the old guard looks for the the Young Turks to take up their bookish battle cry.; By Boris Kachka Nov 17, 1999
Letters to the Editor: You think the media's money fixation is new? Plus: Remembering George C. Scott; what does Salon have against organized religion?; Letters to the Editor Oct 11, 1999
Said who?: In his new memoir, "Out of Place," Edward Said brings his exile into focus and finds a home between his past and his future.; By Chris Colin Oct 4, 1999
Letters to the Editor: Horowitz takes aim at wrong targets, and misfires. Plus: the bizarre world of advertising; do doctors always know best?; Letters to the Editor Oct 4, 1999
The myth weavers: Three leading leftist figures have been exposed this year as having lied about their backgrounds. Has the failure of their ideology forced them to fictionalize?; By David Horowitz Sep 27, 1999
Letters to the Editor: It's time for action in East Timor; misunderstanding "Stigmata"; cybercommunism and "free" software.; Letters to the Editor Sep 17, 1999
Letters to the Editor: Blame the airlines for "air rage"; Greil Marcus takes a tasteless swipe at the Spin Doctors; Mr. Blue's bad advice to single mom.; Letters to the Editor Sep 14, 1999
Said critic blasts back at Hitchens: A third volley in the controversy over the leading Palestinian intellectual in America.; By Craig Offman Sep 10, 1999
Commentary's scurrilous attack on Edward Said: Enemies are calling him "the Palestinian Tawana Brawley," but Said's stories of displacement and diaspora are true.; By Christopher Hitchens Sep 7, 1999
Letters to the Editor: Is Britney Spears just "lovestruck"? Plus: Gates' personality quirks conceal real issues in Redmond; selling science with sex appeal.; Letters to the Editor Sep 2, 1999
Edward Said to respond to claims he's not a true Palestinian: Middle East scholar is accused of misrepresenting his past.; By Craig Offman Aug 26, 1999

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