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Edward Said's Shadowy Legacy
Robert Irwin has a well-informed and interesting review of both Daniel Martin Varisco's Reading Orientalism and Ibn Warraq's Defending The West in this week's TLS.
Of Ibn Warraq's book he says: "As a Westerner and an Orientalist, I find myself somewhat embarrassed to be defended in such uncompromising terms."