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Nov 2020
42m 38s

Orientalism and the Language of the Midd...

OXFORD UNIVERSITY
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Lillie Sullivan, Piotr Schulkes, and Hajar Meddah discuss what the Middle East as a region is and how it is portrayed in academia and the media. They compare what they have been taught to what they experienced when they lived there, and how the language used to describe the Middle East can have severe consequences for policy in the region. 
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