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  • Eugène Delacroix, 'Jewish Wedding in Morocco,' 1841.
    Eugène Delacroix, 'Jewish Wedding in Morocco,' 1841.
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    Delacroix and the Jews of North Africa

    At the Met’s blockbuster show opening this weekend in New York, the French painter’s ethnographic and orientalizing gaze on a precarious people

    byJackson Arn
  • Edward Said.(Francis Tsang/Cover/Getty Images)
    Edward Said.(Francis Tsang/Cover/Getty Images)
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    How Orientalism Shaped Obama

    The White House’s response to the anti-Islam video is proof of the enduring influence of Edward Said’s ideas

    byLee Smith
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    The Ghosts of Edward Saïd

    A provocative Paris show of Orientalist art charts the European encounter with Sephardic Jewry

    byVladislav Davidzon
  • U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton boards her plane at Istanbul's Ataturk International Airport earlier this month.(Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)
    U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton boards her plane at Istanbul's Ataturk International Airport earlier this month.(Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Iran’s Missing Nuclear Fatwa

    Hillary Clinton’s State Department policy relies in part on Ayatollah Khamenei’s supposed anti-nuclear fatwa. But the edict may not even exist.

    byLee Smith
  • Egyptians celebrating in Tahrir Square last month after Hosni Mubarak stepped down.(John Moore/Getty Images)
    Egyptians celebrating in Tahrir Square last month after Hosni Mubarak stepped down.(John Moore/Getty Images)
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    A Newly Paved Arab Street?

    Wieseltier and Ibish cast uprisings in instructively similar lights

    byMarc Tracy
  • The Reception of the Ambassadors in Damascus, 1511(Wikipedia)
    The Reception of the Ambassadors in Damascus, 1511(Wikipedia)
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    Blogger Visits Morocco, Meets Jews

    Armchair orientalism on The Huffington Post

    byHadara Graubart
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