إدوارد سعيد؛ الثقافة والأرضية المشتركة

The book Orientalism of Edward Said represents a milestone in the intellectual lesson on the study and analysis of the cultural phenomenon. So, to the extent that the features of the Oriental lesson have been established through the long years of challenging work, diligence, visions and different perceptions. But the reading of Edward Said (1978), came to put her hand on the Untold Story through the dismantling of the phenomenon and work to put under the scalpel of strict scientific criticism, especially in terms of monitoring the status of the difference in the method of guidance and the definition used by Oriental studies, within The stability of the conditions of the ascetic view on which the efforts of Western thought in the way of dealing with the East, which was placed under the stream of simplification of the totality of the perceptions and interactions.
These representations represented by Western thought on the East, became a blotting of the supposed image of the East. Looking towards distinguishing features of the line The West of the Discourse, which took place in the concentration and became the other East according to the stability of the interactions and triggers, until the features of biases appear on this east to be placed in the category of static imaginations that cannot be flexible a vision corresponds to the statement of the poet Kipling ( East is east and West is west), where stereotyping of the image of Eastern societies, especially Arab and Islamic, and focusing on the Middle East culture and mindset as different from the West in general, customs, traditions, culture, visions and perceptions.