What kind of colonialism is Trump deploying in the Middle East?

As a Political Science student who studies peace-building in the Middle East, I want to start with something a scholar named Edward Said taught us: pay attention to the language first. Not the bombs, not the speeches about “peace,” not the media event. The language. Because power rarely calls itself power. It often arrives as expert advice, as management, as a “solution” imposed on people who are portrayed as unable to govern themselves. This is the core of what Said called Orientalism: a way of thinking that draws a hard line between “the West” and “the East” then uses that line to justify control. It is not only stereotypes—it is also policy: who is treated as rational, who is treated […]