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When Arab Women Artists “Revisit The Harem”


Posted by tasnim on 14 Apr 2015 / 0 Comments
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Originally published here.  Where does parody end and self-exoticization begin? At what point does the Arab woman artist, stepping into the so-often imagined space of “The Harem” risk pandering to an audience that seems to have a never-ending appetite for remediations of Orientalist artwork? Lebanese photographer Rania Matar’s wonderful and insightful A Girl in Her Room […]

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A Danish Scheherazade: Suzanne Brøgger’s The Veil


Posted by tasnim on 29 Jun 2010 / 0 Comments
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The prolific and eclectic Danish writer Suzanne Brøgger has more than twenty works to her name, most of which have at one time or another been labeled as provocative. Brøgger became an overnight celebrity in Denmark back in 1973 with the publication of her acerbically-titled book of essays Fri os fra kærligheden (Deliver Us from […]

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