Saree Makdisi is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California-Los Angeles. He is the author of Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation (2008; rev.ed. with Introduction by Alice Walker, 2010). He is also a well-known literary scholar, and the author of Romantic Imperialism (Cambridge, 1998), William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s (Chicago, 2003), and most recently Making England Western: Occidentalism, Race and Imperial Culture (Chicago, 2014). He is coeditor of The Arabian Nights in Historical Context (Oxford, 2008), and Marxism Beyond Marxism (Routledge, 1996).

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