Arab Occidentalism

'Eid Mohammed's study of Arab representations of the United States identifies and explores a counter-discourse to American Orientalism that he calls Arab Occidentalism. Eager to deconstruct the delimiting binaries of the clash of civilisations thesis. Mohamed makes audible a diversity of Arab voices whose resistance to prevailing Orientalist narratives is varied, complex and crucial.' - Brian T. Edwards, Northwestern University, author of After the American Century : The Ends of U.S. Culture in the Middle East, 'This well-researched, innovative and relevant book offers needed perspectives that will be of value to scholars and students of stereotypical images and cultural studies. This work is a much-needed contribution to Middle East literature.' - Jack G. Shaheen, PhD, author of Reel Bad Arabs : How Hollywood Villifies a People, 'In an increasingly polarised world, where Muslims, and particularly Arab Muslims, and often the very concept of Islam itself, are seen by the West as the 'other' that threatens the very foundations of Western civilisation, this is a timely study that attempts to examine the situation from the other end of the perspective.' - Professor Rasheed El-Enany, author of Arab Representations of the Occident : East-West Encounters in Arabic Fiction, 'Especially since 9/11, much has been written about the West's - particularly America's- skewed perceptions of Arabs and Muslims. But perceptions are a two way street and there has been relatively little scholarship exploring how 'they' see 'us'. Arab Occidentalism fills an important gap.' - Lawrence Pintak, author of The New Arab Journalist and America, Islam and the War of Ideas.