Orientalism as a Tool of Colonialism 4/4

Edward said on Culture and imperialism:

http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=3442235942259420708



Edward Said Lecture The Myth of 'The Clash of Civilizations'

http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=-6705627964658699201



Edward Said about Orientalism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Said

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Said



"Edward Said is the late world famous Palestinian intellectual and literature critic. He was a prominent member of the Palestinian parliament-in-exile for 14 years until he quietly stepped down in 1991. In 1948, Said and his family were dispossessed from Palestine and settled in Cairo. He came to the United States to attend college and lived in New York for many years. Because of his advocacy for Palestinian self-determination and his membership in the Palestine National Council, Said was not allowed to visit Palestine until several years ago and passed away in 2003.

The late Edward Said was a professor of English and comparative literature, known as both a scholar of modern literature and theory as well as a scholar of Middle East politics. He also authored the groundbreaking book Orientalism, a seminal evaluation of Western misperceptions of the East (Muslim Orient), which set the stage for post-colonial studies. Other works include the Question of Palestine, Culture and Imperialism and the Politics of Dispossession.":

http://electronicintifada.net/bytopic/people/118.shtml


Islam Through Western Eyes:

http://www.thenation.com/doc/19800426/19800426said



Orientalism as a Tool of Colonialism (by simon beckel):

http://citizentrack.blogspot.com/2007/05/orientalism-as-tool-of-colonialism.html

http://fusion.dalmatech.com/~admin24/files/orientalism_colonialism.pdf



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[aleebaabaa]

You also dont seem to know middle east history.

Better go study history of Khazaria and Ashkanazi.

[riskability]

1) A year or so I was listening to NPR radio news (USA) while driving: (a Palstinian family whom their innocent son killed by the Israeli army donate his kidney to an Israeli girl and saved her live, the news reporter met at their house an ex-Israeli solder whom his daughter killed in a suicide bomb years before; his commander offer him to join a raid on a Palstinian village to get revenge, he was shocked, refuse, resign and spend time on jail for that and become a peace activist)

[themoroccanqing]

we have been assigned this video to make a report on it :)

any summary?

[SouthernCross33]

Nothing hard to understand here, afterall the US media along with alot of other aspects of the US is owned and run by jews and this is why the US media demonizes the muslims and lies so much about them

[MrLondonchappy]

another important topic raised by orientalism and the negative depiction of the people of the middle east is that aswell as using this as a tool to distract the mass from the problems in their own society, what else is threatening them? why israel?so called 'jewish state' but really are 'zionists', which contradict the jewish fundamentals!

[nikeheader]

@catveezle Palestine was its own state. Isreal took their land and then told them you can have this shit. Why the fuck should they agree to have a fraction of what they had before. Just know that Israel will burn to the ground it is in the Bible. It says Jesus will come save the oppressed and the Jews and Muslims who are now under the fucked up Zionist regime will be freed

[ahsanjafrri]

What shocks me is that in this entire discourse, people don't realize that if Muslims are angry people, it's because their children have been murdered en masse by americans, by the west in general, and thus for them to not be angry would be insanity on their part, and treachery against their dead children. They have a right to fight the West, in every single way, nay, an obligation to!

[alilapointe1]

@catveezle you have been profoundly intoxicated not even dr edward said can cure you from it he has passed away unfortunately conversely,i recommend you cut down on the hollywood films unless you are enjoying life with curtailed liberties ,budget cut followed by shock therapy.

[asopaso07]

*he 

[asopaso07]

What a great great man! Im so glad her was alive and shared his thoughts with us.

Rest in peace Dr Said.

[asopaso07]

4:06 what he says about understanding others as though they were you makes so much sense to me. If u were black you would credit yourself on being the 1st humans to create language and the first humans on earth. If you were Middle Eastern you would pride yourself on being the cradle of civilisation and the ancestors of mesopotamia. If you were European, you would pride yourself on technology and domocracy.

What you are is an accident of birth and u could be any thing so be open to others.

[namenderkrieg]

@catveezle I second that opinion, and I'm not even a Westerner. It's very clear, just from this series of videos, that Edward Said was a smug, self-contented ivory-tower codger who only used his scholarly position to inflame anti-Western sentiment within academia. He played to the tune of the counter-culture that has been a mainstay of Western universities since the 1960s. And his ideas, in themselves, lack logical coherence. Anyway, I think Said died a while back, and good riddance to him.