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DESCRIPTION:Dr. Hatem Bazian, UC Berkeley\nZaid Shakir, Zaytuna Institute\n\nThe study 
 of Arabs and Muslims has become, in the backdrop of the War on Terror, a 
 veritable free-for-all. In academia, books are being published at furious 
 rates, university departments concentrating on Islam and the Arab world are 
 being newly endowed, and once obscure scholars are finally enjoying the 
 limelight. In the popular context, this newfound interest in the Muslim 
 East has reached even dizzier heights with opinions-from the knee-jerk to 
 the thoughtful-being welcomed from pundits of all stripes. All this, 
 ostensibly, to achieve understanding, to allow for the Occident to better 
 understand the other, the Orient.  Perhaps, then, the time has come to 
 revisit the lessons of Orientalism. Because, the "other" may well ask: Can 
 the Orient ever be understood through the looking glass of the Occident? 
     The Zaytuna Contemporary Lecture Series is a special set of lectures 
 taking place at prestigious Bay Area universities for the dual purposes of 
 providing informed discussion on some of the contemporary world’s most 
 important questions and provoking robust and continued dialog. The lectures 
 are open to the public and are delivered by prominent thinkers and scholars 
 associated with the Zaytuna Institute in Hayward, California.  Admission is 
 free. All are welcome.  For more information:  CALL: (510)582-1979 
  E-MAIL: info@zaytuna.org  WEB: http://issu.stanford.edu      \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/04/13/35343.php
SUMMARY:Revisiting Orientalism: Muslims Through the Looking Glass
LOCATION:Stanford University  Jordan Hall, Rm. 420.040  (at the Main Quad)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/04/13/35343.php
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