This book is about colonial and postcolonial politics of representation ; scholarly knowledge, ideology, power and responsibility. It deals with war and peace in the Middle East in general and Palestine in particular. It is centered on twelve concepts Edward W. Said will be lastingly associated with. The first three are what he did for a living : scholar, intellectual, critic, and how these relate to three decisive concepts developed by Said : worldliness, the secular and humanism. It then looks at the three central issues he dealt with : power, representation, interpretation ; in the...