Edward Said is regarded as the originator of colonial discourse theory. He deploys Michel Foucault’ s notion of discourse to accomplish his project in Orientalism and emphasizes Foucault’ s notion of discourse and its relation to power, rendering discourse a carceral system. Although Said explicitly expresses the similarity between Orientalism and Foucault’ s discourse theory, it seems he implicitly suggests that the carceral quality of Foucault’ s idea affects his formulation of Orientalism. This study examines the validity of Said’ s understanding of Foucault and shows that Said’ s construction of Orientalism is based on an imperfect image of Foucault. Argument here is to postulate that Foucault’ s discourse theory provides space for resistance and his theorization of power helps the idea of struggle in discursive practices. Besides, Foucault himself is trapped in a discourse produced by Said. This study casts light on Foucault’ s theory of discourse and modifies this misreading.