Stereotyping – Fawwaz Traboulsi

Book Reviews EN Art & Literature 2003

Edward Said’s Orientalism revisited: translations and translators

A reading of Said's evolution: from Orientalism to "Imperialism is the export of identity"—warning against self-orientalizing and Occidentalism alike, and admitting his book sometimes relapses into what it critiques.

Talks & Panels EN Politics Sociology 2001

Stereotyping the ‘Syrian’ in Lebanon, Arab Stereotyping

Bashir Gemayel reduced eighteen million Syrians to the singular "the Syrian"—and the entire political class adopted this stereotyping that redirects class resentment toward a neighboring people.

Papers EN Art & Literature 1994

Edward Said’s Late Style

Three moments of Said: from critiquing Orientalism to "identity is its owner's creation, not the inheritance of a past"—and reducing imperialism to knowledge/power sanitizes it of occupation and exploitation.