![]() The closure of the east Asian studies department at Durham University was condemned, but the decline of Arabic teaching was also a matter of grave concern. ![]() In a debate in the House of Lords on 24th March 2004, several peers expressed disquiet at the way oriental studies and the teaching of difficult languages had declined in Britain. Arabic studies has lost prestige and the resources devoted to it keep diminishing. ![]() Orientalism is now a pejorative word and its practitioners have become losers in the politics of knowledge. ![]() Orientalist writings, in the sense of books and articles written by academics specialising in Arab and Islamic studies, currently play a negligible part in informing and shaping public opinion. ![]()
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