Postcolonial Theory and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
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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 Case Western Reserve University in 2005. The essays were first published in a special issue of the journal Israel Affairs.
The book contains the following essays:
Irfan Khawaja
“Essentialism, Consistency, and Islam: A Critique of Edward Said’s
Orientalism”
Ronald Niezen
“Postcolonialism and the Utopian Imagination”
Ed Morgan
“Orientalism and the Foreign Sovereign: Today I am a Man of Law”
Laurie Zoloth
“Mistaken-ness and the Nature of the ‘Post”: The Ethics and the
Inevitability of Error in theoretical Work”
Herbert Lewis
“The Influence of Edward Said and Orientalism on Anthropology, or: Can the
Anthropologist Speak?”
Gerald M. Steinberg
“Postcolonial theory and the Ideology of Peace Studies”
Efraim Karsh
“The Missing Piece: Islamic Imperialism”
David Cook
“The Muslim Man’s Burden: Muslim Intellectuals Confront their Imperialist
Past”
Andrew Bostom
“Negating the Legacy of Jihad in Palestine”
Philip Carl Salzman
“Arab Culture and Postcolonial Theory”
Richard Landes
“Edward Said and the Culture of Honour and Shame: Orientalism and our
Misperceptions of the Arab-Israeli Conflict”
Gideon Shimoni
“Postcolonial Theory and the History of Zionism”
S. Ilan Troen
“De-Judaising the Homeland: Academic Politics in Re-Writing the History of
Palestine”
Donna Robinson Divine
“The Middle East Conflict and its Postcolonial Discontents”
Irwin J. Mansdorf
“The Political Psychology of Postcolonial Ideology in the Arab World: an
analysis of ‘Occupation’ and the ‘Right of Return’”
Philip Carl Salzman
-Research:Salzman received his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1972. He has done field research among pastoral peoples, in Baluchistan , Rajasthan , and Sardinia ....
and Donna Robinson Divine
Donna Robinson Divine
Donna Robinson Divine is Morningstar Family Professor in Jewish Studies and Professor of Government at Smith College. She holds a B.A. from Brandeis University, 1963, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University, 1971, in Political Science...
and published by Routledge Press.
The book is based on the proceedings of a conference on "Postcolonial Theory and the Middle East" held at Case Western Reserve University in 2005. The essays were first published in a special issue of the journal Israel Affairs.
The book contains the following essays:
Irfan Khawaja
“Essentialism, Consistency, and Islam: A Critique of Edward Said’s
Orientalism”
Ronald Niezen
“Postcolonialism and the Utopian Imagination”
Ed Morgan
Ed Morgan (professor)
Edward M. "Ed" Morgan is a professor of international law at the University of Toronto.-Education:Morgan attended Northwestern University , the University of Toronto , and Harvard Law School ....
“Orientalism and the Foreign Sovereign: Today I am a Man of Law”
Laurie Zoloth
“Mistaken-ness and the Nature of the ‘Post”: The Ethics and the
Inevitability of Error in theoretical Work”
Herbert Lewis
Herbert Lewis
Sir John Herbert Lewis GBE, PC was a British Liberal politician.-Background and education:Born at Mostyn Quay, Flintshire, Lewis was one of five sons of Enoch Lewis and Elizabeth Roberts. He was educated at McGill University and Exeter College, Oxford.-Political career:Lewis was the first Chairman...
“The Influence of Edward Said and Orientalism on Anthropology, or: Can the
Anthropologist Speak?”
Gerald M. Steinberg
Gerald M. Steinberg
Gerald M. Steinberg is an Israeli academic and political scientist.-Biography:Gerald M. Steinberg obtained his doctorate in government from Cornell University, in 1981. M.A. Government Department, Cornell University, 1978. M.Sc. Physics Department, University of California, San Diego, 1975. B.A...
“Postcolonial theory and the Ideology of Peace Studies”
Efraim Karsh
Efraim Karsh
Efraim Karsh is professor and head of Middle East and Mediterranean Studies at King's College London, and director of the Philadelphia-based think tank, the Middle East Forum...
“The Missing Piece: Islamic Imperialism”
David Cook
“The Muslim Man’s Burden: Muslim Intellectuals Confront their Imperialist
Past”
Andrew Bostom
“Negating the Legacy of Jihad in Palestine”
Philip Carl Salzman
Philip Carl Salzman
-Research:Salzman received his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1972. He has done field research among pastoral peoples, in Baluchistan , Rajasthan , and Sardinia ....
“Arab Culture and Postcolonial Theory”
Richard Landes
Richard Landes
Richard Allen Landes is an American historian and author, specializing in Millennialism. He currently serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Boston University...
“Edward Said and the Culture of Honour and Shame: Orientalism and our
Misperceptions of the Arab-Israeli Conflict”
Gideon Shimoni
“Postcolonial Theory and the History of Zionism”
S. Ilan Troen
S. Ilan Troen
Selwyn Ilan Troen is an Israeli scholar. He is the Karl, Harry and Helen Stoll Professor of Israel Studies at Brandeis University. He is a graduate of Brandeis, with an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago...
“De-Judaising the Homeland: Academic Politics in Re-Writing the History of
Palestine”
Donna Robinson Divine
Donna Robinson Divine
Donna Robinson Divine is Morningstar Family Professor in Jewish Studies and Professor of Government at Smith College. She holds a B.A. from Brandeis University, 1963, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University, 1971, in Political Science...
“The Middle East Conflict and its Postcolonial Discontents”
Irwin J. Mansdorf
“The Political Psychology of Postcolonial Ideology in the Arab World: an
analysis of ‘Occupation’ and the ‘Right of Return’”