"It is quite common to hear high officials in Washington and elsewhere speak of changing the map of the Middle East, as if ancient societies and myriad peoples can be shaken up like so many peanuts in …"

"Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience."

"The academic world is often complicit in the perpetuation of power structures, in the reproduction of ideologies."

"The trouble with identity politics is that it is a prison."

"The relationship between Occident and Orient is a relationship of power, of domination, of varying degrees of a complex hegemony."