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Tag: Ahdaf Soueif

There is no mutual fascination: why the British Museum’s ‘Inspired by the East’ is not inspired (at least, not to me, a heartbroken Muslim Middle Easterner)

7th February 20207th February 2020  Sumaya Kassim

Sumaya Kassim writes about the ingrained orientalist attitudes and tropes which reinforce exhibitions like the British Museum’s Inspired by the East, often at the expense of the experiences, creativity and cultural history of Middle Eastern Muslims.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Arts EssaysTagged: Ahdaf Soueif, British Museum, colonialism, Edward Said, Hafsah Aneela Bashir, imperialism, Inci Eviner, Inspired by the East, Islam, Kaveh Akbar, Lalla Essaydi, Orientalism, Osman Hamdi Bey, Raeda Saadeh, Yasmin Younis
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