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The paper "The Portrayal of Arabic Culture is aladdin" affirms that the movies, specifically Hollywood, have become a modern 'presenter' of 'facts' for most of its viewers.... In this paper, the Disney animation feature "aladdin" will be discussed as an "Orientalism" view of westerners, and will dissect what may be wrong with it.... The original story of aladdin found in "The Book of One Thousand and One Nights" is translated by French Antoine Galland who claimed to have heard it from a Syrian Christian storyteller from Aleppo by the name Youhenna Diab although another name is mentioned as Abu Abd-Allah Muhammed el-Gahshigar....
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One relates to the Western stereotyped notions of orientalism and the other is connected to the ground realities in the Middle East.... Said calls this viewpoint, orientalism and emphasises that this orientalist approach was creating an image outside history as if the life of the orient was placid, still and eternal.... The paper "Video That Describes orientalism Written by Edward Said" describes that Said somewhere in this video, we hear Said saying that majority of Arab countries are ruled by dictatorships and that was why they could not effectively counter the stereotyping....
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The paper "orientalism in Modern World" highlights that Edward Said has voiced what everyone from the Orient was thinking.... It is this biased treatment of the Islamic community by the Western media that led Edward Said to develop the theory of 'orientalism'.... orientalism is a theory by Edward Said which proposes that the Eastern countries are highly misrepresented and misunderstood in the Western countries as the Western people are constantly getting exposed to the manipulated images and fabricated 'news' of the Oriental people through the Western media (Said n....
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Coursework
Walt Disney tried showing the positive side of Islam and the Middle East in his version of aladdin, the animated movie, but even there, in the opening song, as was transcribed in the Edward Said video transcript says 'I come from a land, from a faraway place where a caravan camels roam, where it's flat and immense and the heat is intense, it's barbaric, but hey, it's home.... This essay analyzes orientalism.... orientalism today – the demonization of Islam in the News and Popular Culture....
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Essay
In "The Portrayal of Arabic Culture is Disney's aladdin" paper, the Disney animated feature 'aladdin' is discussed as an 'Orientalism' view of westerners and dissects what may be wrong with it.... The original story of aladdin found in 'The Book of One Thousand and One Nights' is translated by French Antoine Galland who claimed to have heard it from a Syrian Christian storyteller from Aleppo by the name Youhenna Diab although another name is mentioned as Abu and-Allah Muhammed el-Gahshigar....
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Term Paper
As pointed by Said 'the West has long evinced an enduring fascination with the harem and the veil, recurring tropes in Orientalist literature that symbolize Muslim women's oppression and eroticism simultaneously' (Cited by Weber, Unveiling Scheherazade: Feminist orientalism in the International Alliance of Women).... This paper discusses why the Western interpretation is so narrow with regard to the concepts of orientalism, othering, inequality, alienation, and culture with regard to the character of Scheherazade....
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This paper "Edward Said on orientalism" describes the opinion of Edward Said, an internationally acclaimed author of 'orientalism', about orientalism as a concept.... What has been done so far is the clear manifestation of orientalism which is a combination of many interests.... In this paper, major themes of Said's work are summarized in addition to discussion on orientalism today and the Palestinian question....
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This study briefly explores the major themes of Said's orientalism and gives my personal opinion about Orientalism today, and the Palestinian question.... orientalism refers to a set of preconceived notions which west and European nations hold about Middle Eastern and Muslim people.... Said explains that orientalism is the way Middle East is perceived in western society by authors, painters, media, and artists and gradually this perception assimilates in masses One of the reasons Said conceived orientalism is following the media discussion and imagery of 1973 Arab Israel war....
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