ISLA 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: False Consciousness, Edward Said
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Most important aspect in studying women in middle east is orientalism. Week 9 lecture 7 became an important school of thought. The cover page of the book, the snake charmer watching the snake charmer. Naked body in a mosque problem because watching for sexual reasons (pervs ), body would be the imam. Invented an orient that doesn"t correspond to reality. Why do we have a preconceived notion about how they live, how they act even if we summarizes the whole essence of orientalism. How we come to understand people who look different to us by the simple color of their skin. The way the west looks at people of middle east is distorted: this is what is called orientalism. Orientalism is a school of interpretation whose material happens to be the. Orientalism revolutionized the study of the middle east and created new fields of study.