11.28.06
Book Recommendation: Challenging the New Orientalism
A great book by Dr Shahid Alam has been published. For those of you who do not know him, he is a professor, whom has continued to speak out against global injustices, even after being politically smeared. I have worked with him in the past and he is a great academic. Here is a brief biography of him,
M. Shahid Alam is a professor of economics at Northeastern University, Boston. His writings have appeared in leading economic journals, including Economic Development and Cultural Change, Southern Economic Journal, Journal of Development Economics, American Economic Review, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Studies in Contemporary Islam and Kyklos; in popular newspapers and web sites including Dissident Voice.org, Counterpunch, Al Ahram, Commondreams.org, Dawn, Holiday, Asia Times, Scoop, and Outlook India; in literary journals, including Chicago Review, Marlboro Review and Beloit Poetry Journal. He has published many books including Poverty from the Wealth of Nations (Macmillan, 2000), Governments and Markets in Economic Development Strategies (Praeger: 1989), and Is There An Islamic Problem (Kuala Lumpur: The Other Press, 2004 (source: wikipedia).
The book contains an expanded edition of his political essays, Challenging the New Orientalism. It is being published by a small US publisher. The book can be pre-ordered from Amazon.com, and should become available in December 2006.
This is the link to Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/1889999458/ref=pd_rvi_gw_1/102-6195633-9507316
Here is the table of contents:
Section One The New Orientalism
1 Bernard Lewis: Scholarship or Sophistry?
2 A Clash of Civilizations? Nonsense
3 The War Against Global Terrorism
4 Is There An Islamic Problem?
5 How Different are Islamicate Societies?
6 Islam: An InterviewSection Two Palestine and Israel
7 A Colonizing Project Built on Lies
8 Academic Boycott of Israel
9 Crossing the Line
10 Israel’s Proxy War
11 Illuminating Thomas Friedman
12 Lerner, Said and the Palestinians
13 Elie Wiesel: On Being Good Victims
14 Recognizing Israel: Or Selling Out
15 Another Wall
16 Voiding the Palestinians: An AllegorySection Three War Against Global Terrorism
17 A History of September 11
18 A Day That Changed America?
19 Why 9-11 and Why Now?
20 Dialectics of Terror
21 Race and Visibility
23 Iraq is Free
24 Semantics of Empire
25 America Imagine This
26 The Islamic Resistance
27 Testing Free Speech in America
28 Real Men Go to Tehran
29 The Muslims America Loves
amel Said:
November 30, 2006 at 7:11 pm
“the muslims americans love”… i wanna read that chapter! i wonder if he lists the pmu or umaa… ok lemme stop, umaa is lovely
good to see him not afraid to voice his opinions anymore!
altaf Said:
December 1, 2006 at 2:09 am
that article is avail. on line see:
http://counterpunch.org/shahid05082006.html
he does not mention PMU or UMAA in his articles (dunno about the book) by name — but those are the the kind sof orgs. that he is clearly defining as the muslims america loves… the book comes out in January… order yours now!
Tavis Said:
December 1, 2006 at 5:17 am
Adding to my Amazon wishlist (which is, by the way, open to the public, if anyone would like to buy me an Eid present..hehehe).
naqvia Said:
December 1, 2006 at 11:15 am
Altaf,
These are (in his book) expanded essays and I have a feeling he is going to mention at least Reza Aslan, Fareed Zakaria and Irshad Manji (according to my sources
).
Tavis,
Send me a link…