شرق و غرب : الشرخ الأسطوريSharq wa-Gharb : al-Sharkh al-Usturi

Translated to Arabic, 'Orient-Occident: la fracture imaginaire' (East and West: The Imaginary Divide), by Lebanese economist, thinker and author George Corm (b. 1940). Corm explains why the divide is actually an'imaginary divide', hiding the actual interests of secular powers. Going to the sense of the unbridgeable gap between Eastern, Muslim and Western civilizations, he explains 19th century emergence of stereotypes; the East being mystical and archaic; the West being materialistic.

Georges Corm is a Lebanese Economist and Historian. He is an economic consultant to international organizations and professor at Saint Joseph University in Beirut.

He studied at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (1958-1961) where he graduated in Public Finance and has also a PhD from Paris University in Constitutional Law (1969). He served as Finance Minister from 4 December 1998 to 28 October 2000 in the government of Salim El Hoss.

His books have been translated into several languages.