Occidentalism at War: Al-Qaida’s Resistance Rhetoric

Analysis of resistance groups active in the War on Terror provides case-studies for an examination of Occidentalism. Al-Qaida constructs a West both homogeneously and pejoratively in order to represent the self as a single Islamic nation under attack from a barbarian other. Concerned with propagatin...

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Main Author: Christopher Sims
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Università degli Studi di Milano 2012-11-01
Series:Altre Modernità
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Online Access:https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/2562