Western media attention to Palestinian guerrillas far exceeded Egyptian attention
Evidence
It is curious that the Palestinian Arab guerrilla organisations, whose emergence as a new and powerful factor in Arab and Middle Eastern affairs occupies so much attention in the West, receive far less among Egyptians. During several weeks in Egypt and many conversations with many Egyptians, I only heard the Palestine guerrillas described once as a new and signiļ¬cant factor, and that was by a young man who was educated in England and returns to that country very frequently. I had the distinct impression that he derived his opinĀ ions from the B.B.C. and the Observer rather than from any local sources. ā Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1257
Categorization
- XREF: Corroborates/media-cluster claim that Western coverage constructs Middle East salience; the UK-educated Egyptian who imported BBC/Observer views is a textbook Orientalist-knowledge-production case feeding the readerās Islam-West representation cluster. ā connects to: Palestinian guerrillas mattered far less to Egyptians than to Western observers
- FICTION: A young Egyptian who carries Western media framings back home as his own views ā diaspora cognition returning as native authority.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim ā Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpretingā¦, 1257