Area Studies and Orientalism

Middle East Studies Appraises Itself:

Binder, Leonard. 1976. "Area Studies: A Critical Reassassment." In Leonard

Binder ed., The Study of the Middle East: Research and
Scholarship in the Humanities and the Social Sciences. New York:
John Wiley and Sons.
Bonine, Michael. 1986. "MESA and Middle East Studies: An International
Perspective from North America." MESA Bulletin 20 (2): 155-168.
Grendzier, Irene. 1997. "Following the Flag." Middle East Report 205 (October-
December): 2-9.
Hajjar, Lisa, and Steve Niva. 1997. "(Re)Made in the USA: Middle East Studies in
the Global Era." Middle East Report 205 (October-December): 2-9.
Ismael, Tareq and Jacqueline S. Ismael. 1990. "Middle East Studies in the United
States." In Tareq Ismael ed., Middle East Studies: International
Perspectives on the State of the Art. New York: Praeger.
"The MESA Debate: The Scholars, the Media, and the Middle East." 1987.
Journal of Palestine Studies 16 (2): pp. 85-103.
Middle East Report 205 (October-December): 22-24. (special issue on Middle
East Studies).
Mitchell, Timothy. 2002. "The Middle East in the Past and Future of Social
Science." David L. Szanton, ed. The Politics of Knowledge: Area
Studies and the Disciplines. University of California
Press/University of California International and Area Studies Digital
Collection, Edited Volume #3, 2002.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/uciaspubs/editedvolumes/3
Review of Middle East Studies (journal)
Rodinson, Maxime. 1988. Europe and the Mystique of Islam. Tr. Roger Veinus.
London: Tauris.
Rogan, Eugene. 1997. "No Debate: Middle East Studies in Europe." Middle East
Report 205 (October-December): 22-24.
Sivan, Emmanuel (1985), "Edward Said and his Arab Reviewers." In Emmanuel
Sivan, Interpretations of Islam: Past and Present, Princeton:
Princeton University Press, pp. 133-54.
Winder, R. Bayly. 1987. "Four Decades of Middle Eastern Study." The Middle
East Journal 41 (1): 40-63.

Orientalism and Selected Works by Edward Said:

Said, Edward. 2000. Out of Place: A Memoir. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
. 1999. "Defamation, Revisionist Style."
http://www.counterpunch.org/said2.html
. 1997 [1981]. Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts
Determine How We See the Rest of the World. New York: Vintage
Books.

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 . 1994 [1978]. Orientalism. New York: Vintage Books.
. 1992. The Question of Palestine. London: Vintage.
Yeghiayan, Eddie. "Edward W. Said: A Bibliography.
http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/indiv/scctr/Wellek/said/

Selected Works of Orientalism:

Flaubert, Gustave. 1972. Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour. Translated and

edited by Francis Steegmuller. Boston: Little, Brown and
Company.
Lane, Edward. 1986. An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern
Egyptians. London: Darf Publishers.
Lawrence, T.E. 1935. Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph. New York:
Doubleday, Doran and Company.
Lean, David. 1962. Lawrence of Arabia [videorecording]. Burbank, CA:
RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video.
Walsh, Raoul. 1924. The Thief of Baghdad [videorecording]. New York : Kino on
Video.

Criticisms of Orientalism:

Irwin, Robert. 2006. For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies.
London: Allen Lane.
Ahmad, Aijaz. 1992. "Orientalism and After: Ambivalence and Metropolitan
Location in the Work of Edward Said." In Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory:
Classes, Nations, Literatures. London: Verso, pp. 159-220.

Studies of Orientalism:

Caton, Steve. 1999. Lawrence of Arabia: A Film's Anthropology. Berkeley:

University of California Press.
Edwards, Holly ed. 2000. Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures: Orientalism in
America, 1870-1930. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press in
association with the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.
Nochlin, Linda. 1991. "The Imaginary Orient." In Linda Nochlin, The Politics of
Vision: Essays on Nineteenth-Century Art and Society. London:
Thames and Husdon, pp. 33-59.
Williams, Caroline. 1996. "Jean Lèon Gérôme: A Case Study of an Orientalist
Painter." In Sabra Webber, Margarete Lynd and Kirstin Peterson
eds., Fantasy or Ethnography? Irony and Collusion in Subaltern
Representation. S. Webber and M. Lynd, eds., (Papers in
Comparative Studies 8, 1993-94). Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State
University Press, pp. 117-48.
Zeynep Celik, "Colonialism, Orientalism, and the Canon," The Art Bulletin 78, 2
(June 1996): 202-5.

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Selected Works of Postcolonial Studies:

Asad, Talal, ed. (1975), Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter. London: Ithaca
Press.
Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin. 1995. The Post-Colonial Studies
Reader. London: Routledge.
"Introduction to Postcolonial Studies"
(http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Intro.html).
Public Culture. 1993 (Fall), vol. 6 (1). Special issue responding to Aijaz Ahmad's
critique of postcolonial theory.

Selected Polemics:

Alexander, Edward. 1989. "Professor of Terror." Commentary 88 (2): pp. 49-50.

Campus Watch: http://www.campus-watch.org/
Kramer, Martin. 2001. Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern
Studies in America. Washington D.C.: Washington Institute for
Near East Policy.
Lewis, Bernard (1982), "The Question of Orientalism", New York Review of
Books, XXIX, no. 11: 49-56 (and subsequent correspondence)
Said, Edward. 1999. "Defamation Revisionist Style." Counterpunch
(http://www.counterpunch.org/said2.html).
Weiner, Justus Reid. 1999. "'My Beautiful Old House' and Other Fabrications by
Edward Said." Commentary (September).
Youmans, Will. 2002. "Campus Watch: The Vigilante Thought Police."
Counterpunch Sept. 23
(http://www.counterpunch.org/youmans0922.html).