Why we should fear our neighbors more than strangers – Bloodlust
April 04, 2011 | No Comments »
This article is enlightening as well as disheartening as to the human condition and our willingness through out history to destroy those closest to ourselves. By Russell Jacoby Thanks to the Chronicle of Higher Education for this cross post. Edward Said’s 1978 Orientalism opened with a description of the continuing Lebanese Civil War—about which his sister, Jean Said Makdisi, later wrote an eloquent memoir, Beirut Fragments.For Said, however, that war served only to highlight how the West envisioned the East.
