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About the Author

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Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword: Yes, We Can

Introduction: Can Europeans Read?

A Simple Question

To Read Forward

Orientalism Then and Now

Knowledge and Power

Power Is Power

The Fierce Urgency of Now

1: Can Non-Europeans Think?

Found in Translation

2: The Moment of Myth: Edward Said, 1935–2003

The Name that Enables: Remembering Edward Said

3: The Middle East Is Changed Forever

Thinking beyond the US invasion of Iran

Iran’s Democratic Upsurge

People Power

Looking in the Wrong Places

Left is Wrong on Iran

The Middle East is Changed Forever

An Epistemic Shift in Iran

The Crisis of an Islamic Republic

Obama “Bearing Witness” is Crucial to Iran

4: The War between the Civilized Man and the Savage

Imagining the Arab Spring: A Year Later

On Syria: Where the Left is Right and the Right is Wrong

The Spectacle of Democracy in the USA

The Syrian “Massacre of the Innocents”

Revolution: The Pursuit of Public Happiness

To Protect the Revolution, Overcome the False Secular–Islamist Divide

Wresting Islam from Islamists

The Arabs and Their Flying Shoes

Can the Arab Revolutions Survive Syria and Egypt?

5: Postcolonial Defiance or Still the Other

Revolt Spreads against Politics of Despair

Green and Jasmine Bleeding Together

Delayed Defiance

De-racializing Revolutions

Muslims as Metaphors

Žižek and Gaddafi: Living in the Old World

Repairing the Soul of the Empire City

The Third Intifada Has Already Begun

Slavoj Žižek and Harum Scarum

Fifth Column of the Postmodern Kind

Merci, Monsieur Badiou

Conclusion: The Continued Regime of Knowledge

Index

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