Category: by Adam Rashid-Thomas

• A White Man of the East? Edward Said and Orientalism

  9–13 minutes

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  February 10, 2026

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  by Adam Rashid-Thomas, Hilary 2026

  Spring, 1951. A young boy called Edward was expelled from Victoria College, a prestigious English boarding school in Alexandria, for troublemaking. Whatever commotion led to his expulsion, it could not have been as significant as the furore caused by this boy some three decades later.  Few could have predicted that this privileged boy would go…