Middle East Journal

Middle East Journal appears in Edward Said’s notes as the original publication venue for a 1951 article by Bernard Lewis. The citation records that the article was subsequently collected in a volume on Arab Middle Eastern societies and cultures, establishing a traceable path from journal publication to later anthology. The passage does not provide the article’s title, the journal’s institutional history, or further details about its publication practices.

Publication Record

The reference identifies Middle East Journal as the place where the article first appeared in 1951. It then gives the later collection, Readings in Arab Middle Eastern Societies and Cultures, edited by Abdulla Lutfiyye and Charles W. Churchill and published by Mouton & Co. in The Hague in 1970, with pages 688–703. The journal’s role in the available evidence is therefore specific: it is the initial venue in a bibliographic record that also documents the article’s later reprinting.

Place in Said’s Discussion

The citation occurs among the notes to Orientalism, a book concerned with how scholarship and representations of the Middle East are produced and circulated. That context places the journal reference within Said’s record of relevant writing, but the citation alone does not establish what the article argued or how the journal evaluated it. It supports a limited account of publication and transmission, not a broader characterization of the periodical or its influence.