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 a jar.
— Edward Said Contemporary

Orientalism, postcolonialism

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From 'Orientalism'

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1978

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