![]() Yes, it was true that almost every stage of the Iranian drama had come as a complete surprise to the media. Books by SaidEdit 1994 1995 1999 Representations of the Intellectual: The 1993 Reith lectures Peace and Its Discontents: Essays on Palestine in the Middle. ![]() ![]() Yes, it was true that few Middle East 'analysts' had had any concept of the latent power of Shi'ism to create mass mobilization. Yes, it was true that the Western press-which was one half of the pun about 'covering'-had been naïve if not worse about the Pahlavi regime. (Edward incautiously dismissed 'speculations about the latest conspiracy to blow up buildings or sabotage commercial airliners' as the feverish product of 'highly exaggerated stereotypes.') Covering Islam took as its point of departure the Iranian revolution, which by then had been fully counter-revolutionized by the forces of the Ayatollah. ![]() “As he defended the book one evening in the early 1980s at the Carnegie Endowment in New York, I knew that some of what he said was true enough, just as some of it was arguably less so. ![]()
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