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Power and Knowledge Revisited in Middle East Studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

Mervat Hatem
Mervat Hatem*
Affiliation:
Howard University
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Extract

In thinking about a focus for the 2008 Presidential Address, I could not help but be influenced by the fact that this year marked the thirtieth anniversary of Edward Said’s seminal book on Orientalism. I chose to examine the connection between power and knowledge, central to his work, and how this has influenced not only the study of the Middle East, but how it has influenced the members and activities of the Middle East Studies Association, the largest North American professional association devoted to the study of the region, an organization whose influence sometimes extends beyond its territorial boundaries to other parts of the world.

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Mesa Presidential Address 2008
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Review of Middle East Studies , Volume 43 , Issue 1 , Summer 2009 , pp. 3 - 10
Copyright
Copyright © Middle East Studies Association of North America 2009

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End Notes

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2 al-’Azm, Sadik Jalal was one of the earliest critics. See his “Orientalism and Orientalism in Reverse,” Khamsin 8 (1981), pp. 5–26.Google Scholar

3 See Said’s acknowledgement of this feminist criticism in describing the masculine ethos within which Orientalism was written in Said, Edward W., Culture and Imperialism (New York: Vintage Books, 1994), p. xxiv.Google Scholar

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