Last summer, in a bookstore at the base of Kuala Lumpur's Petronas Towers, I had the opportunity to page through some anti-Semitic tracts stacked for sale by the register. The thousand-page books ...

In this grandly illuminating study of two centuries of anti-Western ideas, Buruma and Margalit contend that the hostility of Islamic jihadists toward the United States is but the most recent ...

When the West is under attack, as it was on September 11, it is often assumed -- not only in America -- that the West means the United States. This goes for those on the left, who believe that U.S.

Occidentalism: A Short History of Anti-Westernism by Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit 165pp, Atlantic, £14.99 This book seeks to account for anti-western attitudes. The authors use the word ...

OCCIDENTALISM: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies. By Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit. Penguin Press, 165 pp., $21.95. THIS slim volume is a contribution to the burgeoning shelf of books that try to ...

In 1978 Edward Said’s landmark “Orientalism” did something that the vast majority of books, even great ones, fail to do: It literally changed the way we understand the world. By developing a system ...

How should we read and interpret texts? And how might the modes through which we read be informed, enriched and revised by our understanding of our cultures of interpretation? These questions have ...

For the last thirty years, Edward W. Said’s book “Orientalism” has dominated—suffocated would be the less polite word—scholarship on the Arab world. According to his devotees, Said “proved” that the ...