CounterPunch, June 28, 2003
Scholarship or Sophistry?
Bernard Lewis and the New Orientalism
By M. SHAHID ALAM
It would appear from the fulsome praise heaped by mainstream reviewers on Bernard Lewis’s most recent and well-timed book, What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response (Oxford University Press, 2002), that the demand for Orientalism has reached a new peak. [...]
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