Article: Strolling in Syria with William Biddulph.(orientalism)

It's as if to return reporting, "I've seen the past and it worked." C. K. Stead, "History: The Horse."

Backward into the East

I WANT TO THINK about Orientalism and some of its prehistories and alternative archaeologies by focusing attention on questions of time and the experience of time. I suggest that such questions interrupt the tendency to treat Orientalism primarily in terms of space, of East and West as simply spatial categories, by necessarily entailing ideas about history and historical development. As an object of knowledge for the West, the East seems to have been, from the start, a site of origins, a place with an important past but a ...

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