Orientalism is not a Metaphor

From Everyday Orientalism Podcast · 59:47

Show by Girish Daswani

In the final episode of our first season, we talk with Katherine Blouin and Usama Ali Gad, two of the co-founders of the platform Everyday Orientalism. We discuss how orientalism continues to rear its head in their personal lives and in their scholarly field of papyrology, and how the continued recycling of the logics of colonialism and imperialism continue to haunt, other, and harm people to this day. Katherine Blouin is Professor of History and Classics at the University of Toronto. Her work centres on socio-economic and environmental history, with a focus on ancient, and particularly Roman, Egypt, as well as on the ethics and (de)colonial entailments of Antiquity-related fields. She is the author of the book Triangular Landscapes: Environment, Society, and the State in the Nile Delta under Roman Rule, and the co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Classics, Colonialism, and Postcolonial Theory. She is currently writing a book entitled Inventing Alexandria. Usama Ali Gad is assistant professor of Papyrology and Greco-Roman Studies at Ain Shams University (Cairo, Egypt). He is the founder of Classics in Arabic: Greco-Roman Legacy in Egypt, a blog that aggregates publications and activities related to Arabic scholarship in the field of Greco-Roman studies. His current research interests include the reception of classical studies and ancient history in postcolonial Egypt.The Everyday Orientalism Podcast explores how Orientalism continues to have deep ramifications in our everyday lives, for how we think about settler-colonialism, liberation, and how empire and capitalism continue to exploit and dehumanize the majority of us. Defined by Palestinian American literary scholar Edward Said, Orientalism is “a Western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient.” Our podcast celebrates the 10th anniversary of the platform Everyday Orientalism.Host: Girish DaswaniEditor and producer: Taylor StarkResearch assistant: Sophie PlotkinIntro music: Madame Salame – Decaf

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