Travelling theories

Said’s theorizing of power and representation and his Arab interlocutors.

Abstract

Edward Said’s theorization of power, Knowledge and representation travelled to a troubled land in an atmosphere of ideological polarization that persists to the present which made most interpretations and readings of his book Orientalism and its main thesis measured by how far they fit into an already existing ideological and intellectual map with the minor exception of  Hassan Hanafi’s intervention which expanded Said’s thesis about knowledge and power in an inventive way.