THE PEN AND THE SWORD

Topics covered in their conversation include:

The predicament of the liberation struggle in Palestine; The decline of the American Left; Further elaborations on Orientalism and Culture and Imperialism; The Western generalisations of Arab culture; Imperialism as seen through the prism of Western literature: Joseph Conrad, Jane Austen, T S Elliot, Albert Camus, V S Naipaul, Amos Oz and others.