Orientalism

Who Decides What Makes for Authentic Middle East Fiction?

Who Decides What Makes for Authentic Middle East Fiction?

In Nektaria Anastasiadou's experience, agents, publishers and editors often have peculiar ideas about what constitutes Middle East fiction.

6 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By Nektaria Anastasiadou
How to Write About Kurdistan

How to Write About Kurdistan

A writer's satirical guide on how to write about the hapless, subjugated Kurds, if you're not already filming...

14 JUNE 2024 • By Matthew Broomfield
Edward Said: Writing in the Service of Life 

Edward Said: Writing in the Service of Life 

Academic and novelist Layla AlAmmar interrogates her life's creative and scholarly achievements against the teachings of Edward Said.

9 OCTOBER 2023 • By Layla AlAmmar
Art Curators as Public Intellectuals

Art Curators as Public Intellectuals

Naima Morelli talks to Rose Issa, Sara Raza, Farah Abushullaih and Alia Al-Senussi about art and intellectuals.

1 OCTOBER 2023 • By Naima Morelli
Becoming Palestine Imagines a Liberated Future

Becoming Palestine Imagines a Liberated Future

Katie Logan reviews the latest book from Gil Hochberg, which studies Palestinian archives and artists while imagining a...

27 FEBRUARY 2023 • By Katie Logan
Orientalism and the Erasure of Middle Easterners in Black Adam

Orientalism and the Erasure of Middle Easterners in Black Adam

Mireille Rebeiz takes issue with the dismal portrayal of Arabs and other Middle Easterners in a Hollywood superhero...

7 NOVEMBER 2022 • By Katharine Halls
The Postcard Women’s Imaginarium: Decolonizing the Western Gaze

The Postcard Women’s Imaginarium: Decolonizing the Western Gaze

Salma Ahmad Caller reflects on curating a unique museum-quality exhibition of postcards and objects orientalizing women

15 OCTOBER 2022 • By Salma Ahmad Caller
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