The French novelist Mathias Énard is an unusual kind of regionalist. His great subject isn’t a small town or neighborhood but the vast Mediterranean basin, and practically everyone within it. Énard ...
Whether you’re conscious of it or not, you likely have a vivid mental image of what the Middle East looks and sounds like. You might envision a sparse landscape, the air warped by heat and yellowed ...
Decades after its release, Orientalism continues to be a valuable resource and provides important lessons Anonymous Venetian orientalist painting titled The Reception of the Ambassadors in Damascus, ...
Engin Isin holds a Chair in Citizenship and is Professor of Politics in Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at the Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University. He has published widely on ...
With the 1978 publication of Orientalism, Edward Said launched a critique of Western scholarship on the Middle East that still reverberates through academia and government. By characterizing Middle ...
They are probably the most famous set of stories about the medieval Arab world known in the western world, but the origin and authorship of the Arabian Nights are mired in controversy. The tales were ...
Fashion and orientalism : dress, textiles and culture from the 17th to the 21st century / Adam Geczy
1. Early orientalism and the barbaresque : Luxury textiles and the beginnings of the silk trade -- Venice -- Textiles in Western Europe -- Cotton and chintz -- Charles II and the origins of the vest - ...
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