https://youtu.be/ty_-zHrfEUY?si=PDrBdL-BpYFEsNZj

Legendary palestinian scholar-activist Edward Said delivers a powerful lecture dismantling the persistent ideological belief that the world is riven by a clash of civilizations between the civilized and enlightened U.S.-led West and the barbaric and backward-looking totalitarian forces of the Middle East and Far East.