Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Said (pronounced Sigh-eed) owes his fame partly to his cultural criticism, notably his 1978 book Orientalism, a study of how ideas and images about the Arab world were contrived by Western writers and why. Now comes Culture and Imperialism (Knopf; $25). A plum pudding of a book, with excursions on such matters as Irish-nationalist poetry and the building of an opera house in Cairo for the launch of Verdi's Aida, it is the product of a culturally hypersaturated mind, moving between art and politics, showing how they do or might intermesh -- but never with the coarse ideological...
...fact is that Said, though by no means the only public Arab intellectual in America, is the most visible one: the voice of Palestine-in-exile. For more than 20 years he has been writing in defense of Palestinian rights and against the usurpation of Palestine territory by Jordan and Israel. His books on the subject, like The Question of Palestine (1979), are written, he says, "to bear witness to the historical experience of Palestinians...
Haneen M. Rabie '95, president of the Society of Arab Students, didn't find the joke funny, and blasted the Lampoon in a letter to The Crimson. She said the piece reinforced stereotypes of Arabs as terrorists. "You can't help but feel discriminated against," Rabie told The Crimson, which was also criticized for a cartoon...
...When ethnic groups are mentioned in the lampoon, it's generally a sign of their inclusion on the staff," he says. "We didn't write any Arab jokes" until an Arab-American joined the staff recently, he says...
...Lampoon being "insensitive" when it published an article joking about a fictional Arab assault on American soldiers? Probably, although Arab-Americans aren't particularly disenfranchised at the Lampoon...