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 ...

Cover of Punk Orientalism: The Art of Rebellion by Sara Raza, Black Dog Press, 2022 (all photos Nevdon Jamgochian/Hyperallergic) "Post-truth is pre-fascism …. When we give up on truth, we concede ...

FORTY YEARS ago, Princeton University historian of the Near East Bernard Lewis and Columbia University professor of literature Edward W. Said assailed each other in the New York Review of Books. The ...

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There has recently been a resurgence of insisting on regarding imperial history and colonization as forces for good and positive exchange in response to calls for decolonization. An accompanying ...

N ow an academic classic, Orientalism was at first an unlikely best seller. Begun just as the Watergate hearings were nearing their end and published in 1978, it opens with a stark cameo of the gutted ...

“I know I’m not supposed to because it’s problematic, but I really love Gérôme’s work,” a visitor said sheepishly at the entrance of Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha ahead of a guided ...

* Originally published on October 22, 2019. The Turkish Bath, one of the most famous examples of French Orientalist paintings, hangs in the Louvre. Some two dozen nude women recline in a steam-filled ...

The openDemocracy series on ‘Citizenship after Orientalism’ is a thought provoking investigation into how new forms of citizenship are being enacted across the world even though the orientalist ...

“After Yang,” the second feature by Kogonada, takes place in a speculative future that looks uncannily like our listless present, with holograph-like phone calls that resemble Zoom and domestic ...