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Edward W. Said • 92 Items / 19 Books, 49 Articles, 20 Reviews, 2 Films
Covering Islam (1981)
by Edward W. Said
How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World
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  1. In Print
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    The Western Press Is in Purdah (Review)
    Gary Michael Tartakov
    Covering Islam, by Edward W. Said
    1. Covering Islam by Edward W. Said
    In These Times, November 25, 1981, pp. 12-13
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    Versions of Orientalism (Review)
    Leon Wieseltier
    Covering Islam, by Edward W. Said
    1. Covering Islam by Edward W. Said
    The New Republic, September 23, 1981, pp. 34-36
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    Book Reviews (Review)
    Edmund Ghareeb
    Covering Islam, by Edward W. Said
    1. Covering Islam by Edward W. Said
    Political Science Quarterly, Summer 1982, p. 358
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    Political Booknotes (Review)
    Rick Reynolds
    Covering Islam, by Edward W. Said
    1. Covering Islam by Edward W. Said
    The Washington Monthly, May 1981, p. 57
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    Faith, Truth & Reality (2 Reviews)
    William McGurn
    Among the Believers, by V.S. Naipaul
    1. Among the Believers by V.S. Naipaul
    2. Covering Islam by Edward W. Said
    Chronicles, March 1982, pp. 29-31
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    Books: Briefly Noted (4 Reviews)
    Riddley Walker, by Russell Hoban
    1. Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
    2. The Sage of Monticello by Dumas Malone
    3. Covering Islam by Edward W. Said
    4. Bogmail by Patrick McGinley
    The New Yorker, July 20, 1981, pp. 110-114
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    Conjuring with Islam (7 Reviews)
    Clifford Geertz
    Muslim Society, by Ernest Gellner
    1. Muslim Society by Ernest Gellner
    2. Loyalty and Leadership in an Early Islamic Society by Roy P. Mottahedeh
    3. On Understanding Islam by Wilfred Cantwell Smith
    4. Islam and Revolution by Ruhollah Khomeini and Hamid Algar
    5. Studies on Islam by Merlin L. Swartz
    6. Covering Islam by Edward W. Said
    7. Islam in the Modern World, and Other Studies by Elie Kedourie
    The New York Review of Books, May 27, 1982, pp. 25-28
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    Strengths & Weaknesses (8 Reviews)
    David Spanier
    Israel's Lebanon War, by Ze'ev Schiff and Ehud Ya'ari
    1. Israel's Lebanon War by Ze'ev Schiff and Ehud Ya'ari
    2. Operation Peace for Galilee by Richard A. Gabriel
    3. The War for Lebanon, 1970-1985 by Itamar Rabinovich
    4. The War of Desperation by John Laffin
    5. Covering Islam by Edward W. Said
    6. Man of Defiance by Raphael Israeli
    7. Islam and the Destiny of Man by Gai Eaton
    8. The Media: Freedom or Responsibility by Julian Landau
    Encounter, April 1986, pp. 59-61
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    Recent Books on International Relations (10 Reviews)
    John C. Campbell
    The Middle East and North Africa
    1. Israel and Palestine by Julius Stone
    2. Palestinian Self-Determination by Hassan bin Talal
    3. Palestinian Refugees in Jordan, 1948-1957 by Avi Plascov
    4. PLO Strategy and Tactics by Aryeh Y. Yodfat and Yuval Arnon-Ohanna
    5. Covering Islam by Edward W. Said
    6. The Arabs by Maxime Rodinson
    7. The Crisis of Modern Islam by Bassam Tibi
    8. Security in the Persian Gulf I by Shahram Chubin
    9. Security in the Persian Gulf II by Robert Litwak
    10. The Security of the Persian Gulf by Hossein Amirsadeghi
    Foreign Affairs, Fall 1981, pp. 213-214