Twenty-five years ago, Edward Said's Orientalism spawned a generation of scholarship on the denigrating and dangerous mirage of "the East" in the Western coloni

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Twenty-five years ago, Edward Saids Orientalism descibed the denigrating mirage of the East in the Western colonial mind. But as Buruma and Margalit show in thi

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