Covering Islam : how the media and the experts determine how we see the rest of the world

by Edward W. Said

Paper Book, 1997

Status

Available

Call number

909/.097671

Publication

New York : Vintage Books, 1997.

Description

An unusually sharp look at the way in which the U.S. press and experts have dealt with the crisis in the Middle East and Iran.

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LibraryThing member jonathon.hodge

Predicted the rise of mainstream Islamophobia decades before it was given license in America after 9/11. A great read.

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LibraryThing member gypsysmom

I really struggled with this book. The author writes well enough but I felt he was too close to his subject to be objective. I have no doubt that the media protrays Islam in a biased way but Said is also biased in that he refuses to acknowledge that some followers of Islam are violent. I thought he

might have felt differently after 9/11 but this article shows he still blames the Western media for negative portrayals of Islam although he does admit that the Arab world portrays the West, especially the US, in a biased way as well.

Read the book for the information it provides but keep an open mind.

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