On this day, 25 September 2003, noted writer and intellectual Edward Said died. The founder of postcolonial theory, he wrote extensively on the Middle East and Palestine, and specifically on Western views of “the Orient”.
This is an interesting analysis of his most famous book, Orientalism: https://libcom.org/library/orientalism-orientalism-reverse-sadik-jalal-al-%E2%80%99azm https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1537476443104167/?type=3