Bullies, Parasites and Slaves: Replacing Exploitation with Mutual Care

The Center for Arab Unity Studies published the book **Orientalism and Hegemony:** **Colonial discourse and control over the East Arabic** By Dr. Sami Dhibi. Orientalists and liberal historians who defend Western centrality seek to exclude and belittle the cultural history of the Arab East by beautifying the Western colonial eras, with all the violence, exploitation, plunder, cultural destruction, and racism they entail, in exchange for promoting a stereotypical image of an inferior East dominated by violence, tyranny, and barbarism. On the other hand, postcolonial studies, including Arabic, played a prominent role in revealing the cultural, social, and economic effects of colonialism, especially the studies of Edward Said, who had the most important role in revealing Western discourses about the East, and exposing the imperialist regimes that practiced colonialism. In the same context, an alternative or opposite proposal to Orientalism also emerged in the Arab East, which the Egyptian researcher Hassan Hanafi calls “Occidental Science,” through which Hanafi tried to develop these studies, after realizing the Western obsession with dominating the cultures of the Third World, in an attempt to provide a critical scientific reading of Western civilization. In view of these two projects belonging to the Arab world, and because each of them is a project related to the subject of the research, this book attempts to monitor Edward Said’s critical project that founded postcolonial studies, and to find out the opinions of his most important critics, as well as monitor Hassan Hanafi’s attempts to adapt his idea in the science of Occidentalism, and his most important failures according to his critics. The book not only adopts the same approach adopted by critics of Orientalism in the early, middle, and later stages, but also goes more deeply into covering the greatest part of Orientalism’s phenomena, elements, and problems, emphasizing that central, decisive dimension in the roles of Orientalism, that is, the act of domination.