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MESA Presidential Address 2009: How Do We “Know” the Middle East?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

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Copyright © Middle East Studies Association of North America 2010

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References

1 In his The Footnote: A Curious History (Harvard, 1999, p. 233).

2 From preface to the 1995 anniversary edition of Orientalism, p. xiv.

3 New York Times, 8 October 2009, p. A31.

4 While the quote makes good Carlin, he denies authorship (www.georgecarlin.com/home/dontblame.html). The quote is actually from Dr. Bob Moorehead, a preacher, making it an ironic example of internet “knowledge” [vha].