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Halfway through the Afterward and it’s surprising me by being extremely helpful in digesting and retroactively understanding the full book

Reached the part about the US tradition of orientalism and let me say that there is hope in the world because my own experience doing Middle East + North Africa studies in a university setting involved a diverse group of students and much critique of the preceding intellectual history, but dang is that intellectual history embarrassing as hell, I’m cringing just hearing it broken down for this chapter

I was prepared for occidentals saying weird things about the orient but somehow I was not prepared for the jaw-dropping lack of self-awareness the occidentals have about themselves

Chapter 2 Part III has been the most interesting to me so far but my eyebrows have been getting a workout being raised every two minutes lol