analysts as diverse as Samuel Huntington, Edward Said, and Benjamin Barber have had an enormous impact on thinking of the globe in a dichotomous manner, integrated by conflict or hate rather than peace or love. Said’s influential work on orientalism (1978) looks at the ways in which cultural dichotomies have been constructed between Western and non-Western ways of life. He argues that Western cultural imperialism operates through discourses of power, whereby the non-Western world is constructed as the Other, that is, as fundamentally different in nature from the West. The prime example is the construction of the Middle Eastern Islamic world as Oriental by many generations of Western colonialists, explorers, academics, novelists, and painters.