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This article attempts to explore neo-orientalism in Don Delillo's Falling Man. The study will mainly focus on islamophobia as the essential impetus of neo-orientalism. Postcolonial critical stances emphasize the issue of orientalism as the opposite of the West. Western civilizations used to perceive the traditional orient in the light of "self" and "other" dichotomy, whereby the West is the self that spreads its hegemony on the Orient, or East i.e., the other. Traditional orientalism is, therefore, based on this long inherited ideological assumption. However, this study focuses on neo-orientalism as a binary opposition of the Western hegemony. Some extreme Islamic attitudes reject American Western hegemony. Accordingly, they express their ideological will through relying on some religious ideas to attack America. Such response results in islamophobia midst Western societies. In so doing, they justify their rebuttal of the Western hegemony in order to establish their own oriental identity. The study is going to discuss this rebuttal as a way of empowering traditional orientalism which turns to be neo-orientalism. For this reason, it will apply three postcolonial concepts, namely, hegemony, self-other relationship and islamophobia. Thus, the application of these concepts will reveal the formation of neo-orientalism as a means of elevating oriental traditional identity.

This paper examines islamophobia in John Updike's Terrorist. The study will mainly focus on the ideological confrontation between the East and The West. The traditional relationship between the East and the West is based in the Western perception of the East as the subordinate other. The West itself is the dominant self. However, the East rejects the Western hegemony. It begins to affirm its identity to emulate the Western dominance.The study is going to analyze the East's response to the West through resistant violence. They Eastern, or oriental, fanatics try to prove their existence in the world, especially the United States of America. As a result, the practice extreme actions in the American societies. The study will identify this religious extremism as the main cause of islamophobia that started to be present in the American societies at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Therefore, Edward Said's concept of self-other relationship will be applied to interpret the ideological confrontation between the East and the West. Such confrontation is going to be analyzed to explore neo-orientalism depicted in the novel. That is, the Eastern refusal of the Western hegemony results in parallel power. This power sustains the extremists' opposition of the West. Thus, the study will unravel neo-orientalism as the result of the opposing powers of the West and the East.