...Nadia Bou Ali Abstract This roundtable revolves around the translation of selections from Amel's book Is the Heart for the East and Reason for the West? On Edward Said's Marx in “Orientalism , ” published in Arabic in 1986. The importance of bringing this Arabic text to an English and global...

...Kolja Lindner kolja.lindner@sciencespo.fr © 2021 Kolja Lindner 2021 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Edward Said only wrote a few—critical—words on Marx in Orientalism , but these have caused a discomfort...

...@aub.edu.lb © 2021 Nadia Bou Ali 2021 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). In 1986, Mahdi Amel critiqued Edward Said's Foucauldian account of the interconnectedness of knowledge and power in Orientalism . Amel's main...

... Mahdi . Fī tamarḥul al-tārīkh: Makhṭūṭa . 2nd ed. Beirut : Dar al-Farabi , 2013 . Amel Mahdi . Hal al-qalb li-l-sharq wa-l-ʿaql li-l-gharb? Marx fī istishrāq Edward Said . 4th ed. Beirut : Dar al-Farabi , 2018 . Amel Mahdi . “ Marx fī istishrāq Edward Said: Hal al-ʿaql li...

... to stimulate significant interest and wide-ranging debate in the Arab world and outside it, Edward Said discusses Marx's relationship to Orientalist thought and the Asian East but then makes striking remarks. The purpose of this text is to discuss these statements; it is limited to pages 170 to 173 out...

...Michael Allan Abstract This essay tracks Karl Marx's famous line “They cannot represent themselves; they must be represented” as it travels from a translated epigraph in Edward Said's Orientalism to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's “Can the Subaltern Speak?” What follows from this minor textual detail...

.... R. James have to each other's works, particularly despite their respective readings of Oswald Spengler. Edward Said had already presented a markedly different view of the relationship between Western Marxism and anticolonial thought, particularly by thinking through the reception of György Lukács's...

...Alberto Toscano a.toscano@gold.ac.uk © 2021 Alberto Toscano 2021 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). “Is the Heart for the East and Reason for the West?” faults Edward Said for obscuring the crux of Marx's...

..., Cosmopolitanism . New York : Haymarket , 2013 . Ahmad Ajaz . “ Orientalism and After: Ambivalence and Cosmopolitan Location in the Work of Edward Said .” Economic and Political Weekly 27 , no. 30 ( 1992 ): 98 – 116 . al-ʿAzm Sadik Jalal . “ Orientalism and Orientalism in Reverse...

... sections. The first highlights the work of Lebanese Marxist intellectual Mahdi Amel and in particular his book Is the Heart for the East and Reason for the West? Published in Arabic in 1986, Amel's book critically responds to Edward Said's Orientalism and in particular to Said's reading of Karl Marx...

... University Press , 2013 . Said Edward W. The Question of Palestine . New York : Times , 1979 . Tatour Lana . “ Citizenship as Domination: Settler Colonialism and the Making of Palestinian Citizenship in Israel .” Arab Studies Journal 27 , no. 2 ( 2019 ): 8 – 39 . Tatour...

..., the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, and Makerere University in Uganda. There was more of a turn to thinking about race as part of colonial discourse after the publication of Edward Said's pathbreaking Orientalism in 1978 and the British-Caribbean critic Stuart Hall's work on race as a “floating...

... . researchanddestroy.wordpress.com/2014/06/14/the-wreck-of-the-plaza/ . Ross Kristin . Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune . New York : Verso , 2016 . Said Edward W. The Question of Palestine . New York : Vintage , 1992 . Sarhan Basim . “ al-Mukhayyam al-Filastini fi...

...” of historical progress. 4 To achieve that progress required accepting the fact that academics had not only the right, but the duty, to question the status quo, whether in the hard sciences, the social sciences, or the humanities. Theirs was, by definition, a critical function. Edward Said described...

.... In an untimely moment, Sayyid Quṭb—nearly thirty years before Edward Said's Orientalism , twelve years before Anouar Abdel-Malek's “Orientalism in Crisis” —would be a theorist of Orientalism, its complicity in the colonial project, and the fantasies that it sets into motion and rationalizes for European...

... and the textual from the perspective of classical Indic aesthetic traditions and modern-day Bengali poetics, and embarked upon a search for a language, a form and an orientation adequate to the time of the commonplace and the everyday. Edward Said, in his preface to the 1988 volume of selected SS essays, saw Guha...

... Edward Said in Representations of the Intellectual , Elam seems to counterpoint “amateur” to “expert.” This is not incorrect, but I would suggest that the amateur-expert contrast runs the risk of depoliticizing what is a more primary difference: it is their politicalness, and the promiscuity...

... for a Palestinian in a detention center in the West Bank to read the work of Edward Said or the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish, we have to ask why the act of reading prose or poetry is criminalized. 19 That criminalization takes place within a carceral system where detention can happen without communicating...

... Worldist, Salem participated in crucial events of the liberation period, including the resistance in Port Said during the Suez War, and taught in Algeria in the wake of decolonization. Spotlighting her work in institutions such as the Afro-Asian Peoples’ Solidarity Organization, the Afro-Asian Writers...

... of meaning in a context marked by cohabitation with, and of, two unequal languages? What is the role of language in the production, reproduction, and experience of this uneven relationship? The setting up of scenes of interlocutions, or better said, of theaters of incommunicability , would provide Fanon...