05/30/07:

TODAY'S MUST-READ: Cinnamon Stillwell on The Muddled Mess of Middle East Studies.

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Expressions such as "diasphoric cultural mediators," "amphibian intellectuals," "contextualization," "performance of the self as its own other," the "inability to handle the otherness of the other," "Eurocentric partriarchy," "imperialist masculinist," "gendered Orientalism," and the obscure statement, "regions are not facts but artifacts," provide just a sampling.

Oy, gevalt.

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