identify as or want others to be identified as.” Once again, I was reminded of Edward Said’s critique of T. E. Lawrence’s adventures in the Middle East: “We are to assume that if an Arab feels joy, if he is sad at the death of his parent or child, if he has a sense of the injustices of political tyranny, then those experiences are necessarily subordinate to the sheer, unadorned, and persistent fact of being an Arab.”
