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By Nadje Al-Ali

Nadje Al-Ali's ebook explores the anthropological and political importance of secular-oriented activism by way of concentrating on the women's circulation in Egypt; in so doing, it demanding situations stereotypical photographs of Arab girls as passive sufferers. The argument is built round interviews that manage to pay for insights into the background of the move, its actions and its targets. the writer frames her paintings round present theoretical debates in center japanese and postcolonial scholarship.

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However, it would be misleading to portray occidentalism as the counterpart of orientalism. Rather, I would characterize occidentalism in contemporary Egypt as a critique of modernity which is deeply aware of and reacting against orientalism. ), 1995). Up to the present, unequal distributions of political and economic power characterize orientalism and occidentalism as two similar yet distinct processes. Contemporary constructions of an imperialist, corrupting, decadent and alienating West take place in a variety of contexts: in leftist-nationalist as well as Islamist fora, such as newspapers, books, seminars, discussions in universities, in public meetings of intellectuals and artists etc.

11 No allowances are made for the existence of contradictory discourses, opposition forces, power struggles or even self-criticisms internal to the ‘West’. g. 12 What is prevailing on the level of discourses looks much more complex on the level of practices. Parallel to the negative imagery connected with western culture, politics and lifestyles, there exist various forms of glorification of the ‘West’. In some instances, such as the praise for scientific thinking as being characteristic of the ‘West’, one can detect 10 11 12 Many of the fiercest and most impassioned critics of the ‘West’, read here as the project of modernity and its glorification of ‘progress’, are a number of former Marxist intellectuals (many of them educated in Britain or America) who either turned Islamist or became sympathetic to Islamist activism and discourses.

The concern with non-hierarchical and transparent research relationships, apparent in much of the writings on feminist methodology and epistemology, is based on a proposed ‘feminist ethic of commitment and egalitarianism in contrast with the scientific ethic of detachment and role differentiation between researcher and subject’ (Reinharz, 1992: 27). Ann Oakley, for instance, contrasted objective ‘scientific’ research with feminist research that requires openness, engagement and the development of a potentially long-lasting relationship (1981: 30–61).

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