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Lawrence, the arch-Orientalist British colonel of World War I fame, and they will accuse him of imperialist sympathies.
Some of Said's admirers refer to Ajami by the ugly term "Uncle Abu"--a play on Uncle Tom meaning, in this case, an Arab Orientalist.
While he was in the United States, William Dwight Whitney, America's preeminent orientalist, did all that he could to persuade Hall to remain at home, but he could not prevail.
As Albert Hourani, the dean of Middle East historians, once put it, in a stroke Said changed "Orientalist" from a legitimate academic specialty into an insult.