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Professor Lila Abu-Lughod Joins the Late Professor Said on List of 21 "Best" Middle East Studies Books. The late Edward Said's Orientalism has been selected as the best Middle East studies book of the past century by a survey compiled at the end of 2005. Said's Orientalism is joined on the list by Lila Abu-Lughod's Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin, which was one of thirteen books receiving honorable mention. The list's top five selections are rounded out by Hanna Batatu's The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq, Albert Hourani's Arabi Thought in the Liberal Age, Hourani's History of the Arab Peoples, and Marshall Hodgeson's three-volume work, The Venture of Islam. The survey was compiled at the MES Center at the American University in Cairo using selections sent in by fifty-two professors in the field of Middle East Studies. The list and its survey methods can be viewed in their entirety at: http://www.aucegypt.edu/academic/mesc/PDF/MESC%20November%202005%20Issue.pdf
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