Answer the following questions using complete sentences and in-text citations from the article.
1.In Said's opinion, has general understanding of the Middle East, Arabs, and Islam in the United States recently improved or gotten worse? Why?
- According to Said, why are Westerners mistaken in thinking that they can "redraw the map" of the Middle East? Have they made this mistake before?
- According to Said, why should the West re-think the idea that the Middle East lacks democracy, women's rights, and is undemocratic?
- According to Said, what was the Iraq War really about? How did the media help perpetuate it? How did certain academics help justify it?
- Why does Said argue that all cultures need to re-think how colonialism has shaped today's world?
- How does Said define humanism?
- According to Said, how should we deal with issues of injustice and suffering?
- According to Said, what is humanistic learning? Why are we losing it in today's world?
- According to Said, what are some other factors in today's world that threaten education?
- According to Said, how does the Western media tend to portray the Middle East? How does Middle Eastern media tend to portray the West? What issues unite us today?