Edward Said

June 5, 2024 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

Why Is there no Palestinian State?

The conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is intractable. One binational state is impossible, given that the two sides – Jews and Arabs -- have irreconcilable national projects. The two-state scenario has also proven elusive with Palestinians refusing to recognize Jewish nationhood.

November 3, 2023 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

Gaza and the De-Colonization Narrative

Western views of Arab society often get one major thing wrong – Arab agency.

July 2, 2022 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

Lebanon, America, and the Courage of Fouad Ajami

For his courage to think independently, and for his honesty in tackling Arab failure, Ajami became the guiding light for many Arab thinkers after him.

May 30, 2018 | Clifford D. May

Beyond Orientalism

Bernard Lewis, the incomparable scholar of the Middle East and Islam, died last week.  I cannot claim to have known Professor Lewis well, but one didn’t need to spend much time in his...

May 25, 2018 | Reuel Marc Gerecht

A Historian in Full

The university flag at Princeton is flying at half-mast. It’s an appropriate tribute to Bernard Lewis, who died on May 19, less than a fortnight from his 102nd birthday. Professor Lewis was...

June 24, 2016 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

What’s in a Name?

Barack Obama’s habit of avoiding Islamic nomenclature and highlighting American gun violence whenever Muslim terrorists strike is surely, in part, a product of his fear of anti-Muslim xenop...

February 27, 2013 |

A Nasty Piece of Work

A tawdry new book accuses the late Christopher Hitchens of plagiarism—and worse.

September 21, 2012 | Lee Smith Tablet

How Orientalism Shaped Obama

The White House’s response to the anti-Islam video is proof of the enduring influence of Edward Said’s ideas

February 29, 2012 | Robert Barnidge ASMEA

“Islamophobia” and the Silencing of Dissent

In recent years, much has been written on and discussed about “Islamophobia,” that contrived prejudice that is said to attach to those who question, however sincerely, prevailing unde...

January 19, 2012 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Good-Natured Liberals Become Iran Apologists

Every further step Iran's quest for nuclear weapons takes, and any new piece of evidence documenting it, should concern good-natured liberals. As dedicated internationalists, they should dec...

December 19, 2011 | |

Despite Criticism of Israel, Hitchens was Ardent Foe of Anti-Semitism

Not long ago, I told an older colleague of my admiration for Christopher Hitchens, the Anglo-American author, journalist and public intellectual who finally succumbed to esophageal cancer Thursda...

September 8, 2011 | Clifford D. May |

Disoriented

The state of too many Western leaders ten years after 9/11/01.

June 13, 2011 | National Review Online

The Company He Keeps

Meet Obama's circle: The same old America-hating Left.

February 7, 2011 | The New English Review

In Defense of Ayaan Hirsi Ali & Afshin Ellian

Paul Berman's book, The Flight of the Intellectuals, which was neglected or dismissed  by many in the liberal press without its reviewers seriously engaging with its arguments, deals es...

February 6, 2011 | |

How Democracy Became Halal

IN the Western study of medieval Islamic history, the institution of iqta — land grants from the sovereign to his soldiers — once loomed large, because scholars searched for reasons b...

July 21, 2010 |

Obama Pal Rashid Khalidi Back in the News for Aiding Hamas

President Obama’s good friend, former PLO mouthpiece Rashid Khalidi, is back in the news. He has signed an appeal for funds to outfit another ship that, like the “peace flotilla,&rdqu...

October 7, 2008 |

Why Won’t Obama Talk About Columbia?

Barack Obama does not want to talk about Columbia. Not even to his good friends at the New York Times, who’ve so reliably helped him bleach away his past — a past neck-deep in the har...

November 11, 2003 | Clifford D. May National Review Online |

The Right to Exist

Michael Lerner and Cornel West regard themselves as brave because they “dare” to question “America’s almost blind support for Ariel Sharon’s government.”...