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Date of source: Wednesday, June 2, 2004
Maxime Rodinson died last week at the age of 89. Unfortunately, no one has written enough about this author who produced dozens of books objectively tackling the Arab-Israeli conflict. Although he was himself a Jew, this led Israel to accuse him of being anti-Semitic.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 8, 2004
Maxime Rodinson died last week at the age of 89. Perhaps this is the opportunity to defend the French Orientalist from Arab accusations and the subsequent marginalization of his role and works. While Cairo protested his book about the Prophet Muhammad thirty years ago, the Beirut publishing house...
Date of source: Saturday, June 12, 2004
The latest transformations in Orientalism have given us Arabs the chance to benefit. Arabs should enhance these positive transformations and attempt at producing knowledge that goes beyond immediate worldly interests. Knowledge should be produced that aims at creating deeper understanding between...
Date of source: Saturday, June 12, 2004
Until the turn of the 20th century, the Balkan nations were under the Ottoman Empire, becoming the subject of study by American and European Orientalists as part of the Near East. With the changes that swept the Balkan area, Orientalism in the Balkans transformed from a dichotomy between self/other...
Date of source: Saturday, June 12, 2004
The new generation of Orientalists is less knowledgeable about the culture of the East than its predecessors. The previous generation of Orientalists was aware of the Arab-Islamic texts. But the Orientalist school is no longer able to preserve its scientific traditions today because of a number of...
Date of source: Saturday, June 12, 2004
After September 11, Bush’s administration included a number of Orientalists in top positions, one of whom is Bernard Lewis. Some Western researchers, especially Americans, have abandoned the Imperial spirit, while others have rejected assertions to America and Europe’s hegemony over the Islamic...
Date of source: Saturday, June 12, 2004
I feel that British intellectuals are divided. One group, which includes Bernard Lewis, takes a hostile attitude towards Islam and propagates anti-Islam thoughts in universities and research centers. The other group, which includes Alfred Holiday, understands the reality of Islam and defends it,...
Date of source: Friday, January 17, 2003
Dr. Gunter Mulack, Commissioner for the Dialogue with the Islamic World of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stressed the need for dialogue between the West and the Arab world to avoid increasing tensions and develop an understanding between different cultures. Many of his views concur with...
Date of source: Saturday, June 12, 2004
“Orientalism” is a field of
research conducted by the West in modern times, especially in the last two centuries during the
colonial era and the era of liberation. This kind of research discloses more about the mentality
of the researcher than the topic researched. Orientalism focuses its study...
Date of source: Saturday, June 12, 2004
The new Orientalism now uses mainly anthropological methods in interpreting classical
texts, and employs sociological methods in interpreting contemporary phenomenon. We lack access
to Western studies of classical topics as well as contemporary issues. However severely we
criticize what others...
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Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.