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                          This blog is a part of my classroom activity in which students have to write on the interview of Edward Said about Orientalism. Here is the link of the given task by teacher, to see click here

Edward Said has long been considered one of the world’s most compelling public intellectuals, taking on a remarkable array of topics with his many publications. But no single book has encompassed the vast scope of his stimulating erudition quite like Power, Politics, and Culture, a collection of interviews from the last three decades.

 What is Orientalism:

  As per the Said's words,

• Orientalism is not an imagination it is material thing and genuine theory. 
• Orientalism is revolutionized the study of middle East and also useful to studies post-colonialism and other discipline like History, Anthropology, Political science and Cultural studies.

"A life of exile moves according to a different calendar, and is less seasonal and settled than life at home. Exile is life led outside habitual order. It is nomadic, decentered, contrapuntal; but no sooner does one get accustomed to it than its unsettling force erupts anew."

 -(Edward Said)

So, here Edward Said using the ideas and concept of the way "Foucault is trying to look at the nature of How Knowledge Generate Certain Power structures" the belongs of people there was always a segregation of knowledge .so this study of understand the generated being compared  with the idea of Imperial Races and culture were in some way superior with the colonial states, for understanding of this idea of ORIENT is generally known as East , Oriented were West so that's are the various binaries of it. 

Edward Said, in his ground breaking book, Orientalism, defined it as the acceptance in the West of “the basic distinction between East and West as the starting point for elaborate theories, epics, novels, social descriptions, and political accounts concerning the Orient, its people, customs, 'mind,' destiny and so on.”

Here, I am sharing one video related with Orientalism, which gives you a good thoughts about to understand more in Orientalism. 

"Orientalism” is a, way of  observing  imagines, emphasizes, exaggerates and distorts differences of Arab peoples and cultures as compared to that of Europe and the U.S. It often involves seeing Arab culture as exotic, backward, uncivilized, and at times dangerous. Edward W. Said, in his groundbreaking book, Orientalism, defined it as the acceptance in the West of “the basic distinction between East and West as the starting point for elaborate theories, epics, novels, social descriptions, and political accounts concerning the Orient, its people, customs, ‘mind,’ destiny and so on.

Concept of Arabian Culture 

Balaji Ranganathan sir added the concept of Arabian culture as an example in post-colonial studies, that how this culture is being constructed and decimated and disseminated. The creation of every concept or a culture always has its origin and struggle for survive with the notions of history. 

Orientalism never stand to premise in geographical space for any country or culture. it includes literal aspects of history or a time , for example , William jones known as a father of linguistic his poetry is more about orient and subjects of MEDIEVAL EUROPEAN LITERATURE, for him orient is a subject of Modernity.

Birth of Orientalism 

Modern Orientalism is not a brainchild of nineteenth-century European imperialists and colonialists, but, as Urs App demonstrates, was born in the eighteenth century after a very long gestation period defined less by economic or political motives than by religious ideology. It was highly a victorine time where Catholic church , pope were at the height of the state.

The idea of orient people is much of like with customs of the oriental mind also with oriental destiny. so largely we can not say that orientalism beyond the 19th century, because orientalism is very specifically before the 18th century, and after 20th century early 20 years is very tempting . In the sense of corporate institute it functions like corporate. there are laws and legislations. so with the birth of orientalism many universities , share markets, finance ventures opens up with it. 

So, we can say that orients are rich by politically, sociologically, militarily ideology, scientifically and imaginatively they are rich well.

4. On Palestine

The origins to the conflict can be traced back to Jewish immigration and sectarian conflict in Mandatory Palestine between Jews and Arabs. It has been referred to as the world's

 "most intractable conflict",

 with the ongoing Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip reaching 52 years.

 Said talked about the issue of Palestine that what is the condition of the people there, they have not their mother land because of the forcefully occupation by Israel. From 1948 to present time Palestinian are suffering a lot for the peace and their homeland but Western countries do not take any kind of action on this issue. We also can say that why Europe and America built a new state for Jew people surrounding Islamic countries, if they have love for Jew people then why they vanished Jew from Europe. So, Said explained this issue through cultural, religious and political views.

Simple problem is that "One Side Wants the Other side Beat "Arab-Israel war 1948-49

There was war time between Arabs and Israel . And That time Israel defeated the Arab Countries and established the new country for the Jews People.

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