Join Isabella and Raisya in thinking about what it means to be a public intellectual. They consider the legacy of Edward Said’s work Orientalism (1978) and the controversy with historian Bernard Lewis.

The works referenced in this episode include Alan Lightman’s essay about “The Role of the Public Intellectual," in the MIT Communications Forum; Bernard Lewis's “The Question of Orientalism” in The New York Review of Books, 24 June 1982; Douglas Martin, "Bernard Lewis, Influential Scholar of Islam, Is Dead at 101" in The New York Times (21 May 2018); Edward W. Said and Oleg Grabar's “Orientalism: An Exchange” in The New York Review of Books, 12 August 1982; and Adam Shatz, “'Orientalism,’ Then and Now” in The New York Review of Books, 20 May 2019.