Edward Said’s Orientalism is a foundational essay for postcolonial studies. The article revisits the main features of the theme of memory in this major and sometimes controversial work. This study allows us to consider a few aspects of the relationship between the postcolonial field (at least, in its beginnings) and memory studies, in order to initiate a dialogue, in the wake of the notion of “multidirectional memory” presented by Michael Rothberg in 2009, in his essay recently translated by Luba Jurgenson.