Reply #4: Good. He was a strong voice in how Islamic cultures were portrayed.

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"Orientalism," for instance, demonstrated that our views of the Middle East and Islam were deliberately shaped to create a difference between east and west, in order to demonstrate western superiority over the east for political and cultural and economic regions. Similar to Chomsky, in some ways, in trying to expose the mechanisms by which a political system creates an image of another system in order to control that system.

It's been too long since I've read him, so I can't explain it better than that, but worth the read. Very relevant to the way the media portrays eastern and Islamic cultures.