This is the second time I have read this book, and the first time since I first read it in grad school fifteen years ago. The book itself is rounding on 45 years old. Reading the introduction written shortly before Said’s death in 2003 and the fifteen year afterward in 1993 ten years earlier some things emerge as criticism of the text, and I will start. I also happened to find an article from the Guardian defending late 19th century Orientalist art that makes the […]