Front Cover -- About the Author -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword: Yes, We Can -- Introduction: Can Europeans Read? -- A Simple Question -- To Read Forward -- Orientalism Then and Now -- Knowledge and Power -- Power Is Power -- The Fierce Urgency of Now -- 1: Can Non-Europeans Think? -- Found in Translation -- 2: The Moment of Myth: Edward Said, 1935-2003 -- The Name that Enables: Remembering Edward Said -- 3: The Middle East Is Changed Forever -- Thinking beyond the US invasion of Iran -- Iran's Democratic Upsurge -- People Power -- Looking in the Wrong Places -- Left is Wrong on Iran -- The Middle East is Changed Forever -- An Epistemic Shift in Iran -- The Crisis of an Islamic Republic -- Obama "Bearing Witness" is Crucial to Iran -- 4: The War between the Civilized Man and the Savage -- Imagining the Arab Spring: A Year Later -- On Syria: Where the Left is Right and the Right is Wrong -- The Spectacle of Democracy in the USA -- The Syrian "Massacre of the Innocents" -- Revolution: The Pursuit of Public Happiness -- To Protect the Revolution, Overcome the False Secular-Islamist Divide -- Wresting Islam from Islamists -- The Arabs and Their Flying Shoes -- Can the Arab Revolutions Survive Syria and Egypt? -- 5: Postcolonial Defiance or Still the Other -- Revolt Spreads against Politics of Despair -- Green and Jasmine Bleeding Together -- Delayed Defiance -- De-racializing Revolutions -- Muslims as Metaphors -- Žižek and Gaddafi: Living in the Old World -- Repairing the Soul of the Empire City -- The Third Intifada Has Already Begun -- Slavoj Žižek and Harum Scarum -- Fifth Column of the Postmodern Kind -- Merci, Monsieur Badiou -- Conclusion: The Continued Regime of Knowledge -- Index -- Back Cover.