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An online publication of the AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University

Arab intellectuals

The Unmaking of the Arab Intellectual: An Interview with Zeina G. Halabi

By Micah A. Hughes  //  January 24, 2018January 24, 2018

Micah Hughes: Can you start by talking a little bit about your intellectual background and how you came to the topic of your book, The Unmaking of the Arab Intellectual: Prophecy, Exile, and the Nation?…

Fictional Writing as Western Resistance: How Two Writers Challenged Western Orientalist Depictions of the Arab “Other”

By Ida Nitter  //  May 25, 2017May 25, 2017

The publication of Edward Said’s Orientalism in 1978 led to a deluge of writing on Western representations of the Orient. Of the recent scholarship that deals with nineteenth and early twentieth-century Orientalism, most either focus…

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