Abstract
Post-9/11 American neo-Orientalist representations pervade today's politics and journalism about the Arab World. Since the first emergence of the Middle East representation in American writings of the nineteenth century, one can assume that nothing has changed in representations of the Middle East in the US. This article explores a twenty-first century phenomenon called “neo-Orientalism,” a style of representation that, while indebted to classical Orientalism, focuses on “othering” the Arab world with the exclusion of some geographic parts, such as India and Turkey, from the classical map of Orientalism. Although neo-Orientalism represents a shift in the selection of its subject and locale, it nonetheless reproduces certain repetitions of and conceptual continuities with its precursor. Like classical Orientalism, neo-Orientalism is a monolithic discourse based on binarism between the superior American values and the inferior Arab culture.
Highlights
Post-9/11 American neo-Orientalist representations pervade today’s politics and journalism about the Arab World
The most important effect of the 9/11 attacks on the American classical Orientalist academia is the injection of a “neo” dynamism to the political arena and issues related to the Arab world, the most static and dictatorial region of the world
The result of this symbolic change is the emergence of the neo-Orientalist academia in which the Arab world becomes the center while major classic components such as India, Iran, and Turkey are excluded from the neo-Orientalist map
Summary
Post-9/11 American neo-Orientalist representations pervade today’s politics and journalism about the Arab World. The 9/11 terrorist attacks, the American military retaliation, and world politics changes contributed to the re-evaluation of the classic Orient (Merskin, 2004: 161).
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