At the Met’s blockbuster show opening this weekend in New York, the French painter’s ethnographic and orientalizing gaze on a precarious people
The White House’s response to the anti-Islam video is proof of the enduring influence of Edward Said’s ideas
A provocative Paris show of Orientalist art charts the European encounter with Sephardic Jewry
Hillary Clinton’s State Department policy relies in part on Ayatollah Khamenei’s supposed anti-nuclear fatwa. But the edict may not even exist.
Wieseltier and Ibish cast uprisings in instructively similar lights
Armchair orientalism on The Huffington Post
