Are we sure that the perception that we have about the East (and about the Middle East and the different struggles it is going through) is neutral and unbiased?

The Palestinian academician Said advanced the hypothesis that the European perspective on the East, that  has been shaped throughout the 18^th and 19^th centuries by Orientalism, a mystified vision of an exotic Elsewhere, symmetrically different from and characterised by the Irrational (as opposed to the West as cradle
of civilisation and rationality), continued to be heavily influenced by this ideal.

In his view, what we get nowadays from the media is the result of this stereotypical vision of the East, that we have not yet managed to discharge and question.