Edward Said spent much of his distinguished career combatting Western stereotypes of the Arab world. Laura Nader explains what Said meant by "Orientalism," and describes what Arabs who visited the West in past centuries came to think of Western practices. Also, Adel Iskandar talks about the volume in which Laura Nader's article about Said appears.

Innocent civilians in Libya were about to be slaughtered en masse, so the world community had to do something. Who propagated that message, and why? And what aren't we hearing about the reasons for the crackdown on people's uprisings in places like Bahrain? Vijay Prashad weighs in on the Arab Spring and the situation, past and present, in Libya.

Thousands of women and girls are murdered every year by their brothers, fathers, and other male relatives. If these killings are explained or justified as a matter of family honor, how should we respond? And how has popular revulsion toward so-called honor killings been used politically? Jordanian journalist Rana Husseini is the author of Murder in the Name of Honor.