Chair:

Mervat F. Hatem
Howard University

E. Saïd:
pour penser l’altérité

Francois Burgat
Institut Francais du Proche Orient

Situating Orientalism:
On the Margins of Middle East Studies

Ella Shohat
New York University

Islam in America:
Adventures in Neo-Orientalism

Denise A. Spellberg
University of Texas at Austin

Orientalism Revisited:
On Orientalising the Orientals

Fawwaz Traboulsi
Lebanese American University

Published thirty years ago, Edward Said’s Orientalism continues to provoke intense scholarly and political debate. Periodically at annual meetings, MESA members have used the work as a centerpiece for a discussion of different approaches and methodologies. This year, another four scholars will discuss their own scholarly trajectories in relation to Orientalism and highlight new insights into the work and new directions in approaches and methods.