Reading Edward Said and Saba Mahmood in Today’s Context

In Postcolonialism Tags Published 1/29/2024

Reading Edward Said and Saba Mahmood in Today’s Context

Thursday, 01 November 2018, 5:00 PM -7:00 PM | Room 2-5, Business Building, University of Alberta

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978), the passing of a distinguished Muslim scholar and a renowned feminist theorist Saba Mahmood (1962-2018), and the passing of the Orientalist historian Bernard Lewis (1916-2018). How relevant are the ideas of Said and Mahmood today? To what extent a critique of Orientalism, reversed-Orientalism, autocratic and militant secularism, and Empire’s War on Terror help us to understand today’s crisis of the Middle East and Muslim majority societies.

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