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 ...

Emerging in the late Ottoman era, Jewish scholars studied a vast array of works by medieval Arab scholars to establish a body ...

“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 ...

It is a quandary that regularly dogs art historians, curators, critics, and the public at large regarding numerous high-profile artists of times past. In the list of controversial historic artists ...

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 ...

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 ...

A significant issue in Orientalism is its being a representation of the Orient. Representation, in this sense, is a sort of control. As Said argues, representation very often turns to ...

The Museum of Art and Culture of Marrakech (MACMA) has a small permanent exhibition called Expressions of Orientalism. It’s about the colonial European image of the Arab world as a place of exotic ...

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 ...