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Arab Intellectuals and American Power - Edward Said, Charles Malik, and the US in the Middle East (Hardcover)
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Arab Intellectuals and American Power - Edward Said, Charles Malik, and the US in the Middle East (Hardcover)
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Edward Said, the famous Palestinian American scholar and activist,
was one of the twentieth century's most iconic public
intellectuals, whose pioneering and - to some - controversial work
on Orientalism shaped Middle Eastern and postcolonial studies and
beyond. But how exactly did he arrive at his famous maxim to 'speak
truth to power'? This dual biographical study examines the lives of
Edward Said and the eminent Lebanese philosopher and diplomat
Charles Malik, a distant relative 30 years his senior whom Said
knew from childhood as "Uncle Charles." To Said, Malik was no
ordinary relative; in his memoir, he called Malik "the great
negative intellectual lesson of my life", and was to describe him
as "an ideal as I was growing up" only to later claim Malik "went
through an ugly transformation that I could never come to terms
with". M.D. Walhout charts the development of these two remarkable
figures, reconstructing in the process the way in which American
power in the Middle East came to have a defining effect on Arab
intellectuals in the twentieth century. Exploring issues of
religion and nationalism, Walhout shows how Said came to reject
much of what Malik stood for: Christian faith, hardline
anti-Communism and the benign nature of American power. He argues
that the example of Malik was instrumental in the development of
Said's later belief that the true vocation of the intellectual was
not to compromise with power, but to resist it.
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