... portrays themselves as the rational, as the open-minded, as the tolerant, and thus defines this projected image of ˜The Orient' as something we are not under the constituted definition of what ˜the other' is. What is so perilous about assumptions, when it is just this, assumptions? The precarious outcomes of the assumptions by the influential West has resulted ... mystical dreams, its disdainful immobility and its grey rags. May he preserve to the Bedouin bag- pipes their mournful, harrowing sound; to the old mosques their inviolable mystery and the shroud of white chalk to the ruins....

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