Expert discourse reduces the Orient’s history to the expert’s experience

Evidence

Indeed what Lawrence presents to the reader is an unmediated expert power—the power to be, for a brief time, the Orient. All the events putatively ascribed to the historical Arab Revolt are reduced finally to Lawrence’s experiences on its behalf. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 618

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the mechanism of ‘unmediated expert power’ — the expert becomes the Orient itself, erasing the referent’s own reality.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 618