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Reflections on Traveling Through Time with Orientalist Authors
Orientalism is the imitation of aspects in the Eastern world, it is a way of seeing that imagines, emphasizes, and distorts differences of Arab peoples and their cultures as compared to that of Europe and the U.S. These depictions are usually done by writers, designers, and artists from the West. Our project aims to apply…
Traveling Through Time with Orientalist Authors
Edward W. Said, Palestinian writer and professor of literature at Columbia University, defined orientalism as a way to describe and emphasize the difference between the Eastern World and the West. “Orient” actually extends from North Africa to Asia, passing by the Middle East. Although a lot of people nowadays think that orientalism has vanished, the…
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