Define the term "Orientalism" as coined by Edward Said.

Before Edward Said published in 1978, the terms
"Orientalism" and "Orientalist" had been used for centuries simply to denote
the academic study of Asian and Middle Eastern language, history, and culture. For instance, a
famous scholar of the eighteenth century, Sir William Jones, who wrote a grammar of the Persian
language and translated legal documents from Arabic and Sanskrit, was widely known as
"Orientalist Jones."

Said's book redefined the term
"Orientalism" as something pejorative and patronizing. He wrote that the East, which
appears in Orientalist discourse, was a series of...