GEOG 345 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Palestinian Refugees, United States Central Command, Palestinians
Document Summary
Said wrote a book on orientalism in 1978. Born in jerusalem, but spent most of his time in cairo where he made regular trips to palestine (but this was prior to 1947-1948, when the. British mandate disposed of the palestinian people, leading to a war) Due to this dispersal, said and his family fled to cairo --> he moved to a predominantly british cairo. He was a professor of comparative literature --> although he was a scholar of literature, he also displayed a capacity to enlarge geographical disciplines. Modern orientalism (1978) --> a critique of orientalism by said. Orientalism began in europe and was taken over by the us to represent/manage the image of the "orient" (essentially how the west sees the east) This was derived from a constant fear of the east (e. g. the persian empire) Came from a need to capture a radically different society through verbal, textual and graphical form.
