From Foucault to Postcolonialism: New Outlook into the Middle East

This research reviews Foucault’s idea about discourse and power, Said’s view about the Orientand Bhabha’s perception regarding stereotype. Benefitting from Foucault s ideologies,postcolonial theorists like Edward Said and Homi Bhabha illustrate how colonial discoursecirculates. They insist that Western episteme on knowledge, science and understanding hasempowered the Occident/ West to control and command the Orient/ East. Said’s insight towardOrientalism sheds light on how the occident represent and dominate the Orient politically,sociologically, militarily, ideologically, scientifically, and imaginatively in the past centurieswhose effects are still prevalent. Bhabha builds on Said’s work linking Saidian and Foucauldiandiscursivity. This research illustrates how the discourse of marginalization is presented and howit shapes the postcolonial stereotype. The marginalization is portrayed by the colonial powerover colonized nations. This research addresses one of the noticeable postcolonial issues:colonial discourse. It reveals that the representation of Middle Easterners is a continuation ofWestern accumulations of negative stereotypes and prejudices that are circulated for decades. Itprovides a detailed debate to describe postcolonial theory and colonial discourse