We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness..

The sense of Islam as a threatening Other - with Muslims depicted as fanatical, violent, lustful, irrational - develops during the colonial period in….

Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission ….

Since when does a militarily occupied people have the responsibility for a peace movement?.

Just as none of us is outside or beyond geography, none of us is completely free from the struggle over geography. That struggle is complex and inter….

Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient—dealing with it by making statements about it, aut….

My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silence and elisions, always w….

No cause, no God, no abstract idea can justify the mass slaughter of innocents..

Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a consciousness..

Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric..

Refuse to allow yourself to become a vegetable that simply absorbs information, pre-packaged, pre-ideologized , because no message.. is anything but ….

Take a young man from Gaza living in the most horrendous conditions - most of it imposed by Israel - who straps dynamite around himself and then thro….

exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, b….

Part of the main plan of imperialism... is that we will give you your history, we will write it for you, we will re-order the past...What's more trul….

Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human hi….

I take criticism so seriously as to believe that, even in the midst of a battle in which one is unmistakably on one side against another, there shoul….

The Orient that appears in Orientalism, then, is a system of representations framed by a whole set of forces that brought the Orient into Western lea….

Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also b….

What is quite worrisome is the absence of analysis and reflection. Take the word "terrorism." It has become synonymous now with anti-Americanism, whi….

Power, after all, is not just military strength. It is the social power that comes from democracy, the cultural power that comes from freedom of expr….

What we must eliminate are systems of representation that carry with them the authority which has become repressive because it doesn't permit or make….