Twenty-five years after Edward Said's Orientalism, a whole field of study has developed to analyze and interpret the denigrating fantasizes of the exotic 'East' that sustained the colonial mind. But what about the fantasies of 'the West' in the eyes of its self-proclaimed enemies? Those remain largely unexamined and, as Ian Buruma and Avishai Maralit argue, woefully misunderstood. This groundbreaking investigation into the dreams and stereotypes of the Western ...
