''Postcolonial Theory and the Arab–Israeli Conflict'' is a 2008 book edited by
Philip Carl Salzman and
Donna Robinson Divine and published by Routledge Press. The book is based on the proceedings of a conference on "Postcolonial Theory and the Middle East" held at
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in 2005. The essays were first published in a special issue of the journal ''Israel Affairs''.
Contents
The book contains the following essays:
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Irfan Khawaja, “Essentialism, Consistency, and Islam: A Critique of Edward Said’s Orientalism”
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Ronald Niezen, “Postcolonialism and the Utopian Imagination”
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Ed Morgan, “Orientalism and the Foreign Sovereign: Today I am a Man of Law”
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Laurie Zoloth, “Mistaken-ness and the Nature of the ‘Post”: The Ethics and the Inevitability of Error in theoretical Work"
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Herbert Lewis, “The Influence of Edward Said and Orientalism on Anthropology, or: Can the Anthropologist Speak?”
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Gerald M. Steinberg, “Postcolonial theory and the Ideology of Peace Studies”
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Efraim Karsh
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, “The Missing Piece: Islamic Imperialism”
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, “The Muslim Man’s Burden: Muslim Intellectuals Confront their Imperialist Past”
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Andrew Bostom, “Negating the Legacy of Jihad in Palestine”
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Philip Carl Salzman, “Arab Culture and Postcolonial Theory”
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Richard Landes, “Edward Said and the Culture of Honour and Shame: Orientalism and our Misperceptions of the Arab–Israeli Conflict”
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Gideon Shimoni, “Postcolonial Theory and the History of Zionism”
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S. Ilan Troen, “De-Judaising the Homeland: Academic Politics in Re-Writing the History of Palestine”
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Donna Robinson Divine, “The Middle East Conflict and its Postcolonial Discontents”
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Irwin J. Mansdorf, “The Political Psychology of Postcolonial Ideology in the Arab World: an analysis of ‘Occupation’ and the ‘Right of Return’"
References
2008 non-fiction books
Books about the Arab–Israeli conflict
Israeli–Palestinian conflict books
Political books
Postcolonial literature
Routledge books
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