Orientalism as defined by Edward Said (1978) is a way of seeing that conceives, highlights, overstates, and alters differences of the Arab people and cultures as compared to that of Europe and the U.S. It is the acceptance in the West of “the basic distinction between East and West as the starting point for novels, social descriptions, epics, theories, and political accounts which concern the Orient including its citizens, ‘mind’, customs, destiny and other ideas.” It revolutionized the study of the Middle East.
Napoleon’s army on his conquest of Egypt were consisted not only of soldiers but also
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