Working on issues relating Middle Eastern countries to super powers like the UK and the US, especially in the post 9/11 era, often makes researchers either use Orientalism, Neo-Orientalism or other theoretical tools to analyse matters and make them understandable.
Do you that engaging Orientalism, Neo-Orienatlism, Social Darwinism and Fanonism, is a good choice to decipher happenings in the Middle East?
You could use game theory and geo political thinking, because these are the tools created by the superpowers themselves. The tools you mention are sometimes emotionally charged, and the superpowers are cold. So do you want to study the superpowers, or the way the superpowers made you feel? If the latter is the point, I think you should find someone from your region. Fannon is great, but he has been dead a long time?
The liminality intrigues me. To observe these happening, we have all these models. When the issue is seen through all these models we find overlapping grey areas of liminality. For instance the Arab spring can be examined through all these models. Yet to answer a simple question, what motivated all these people to take action? I find the answers complexing.
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