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Arab Occidentalism - Images of America in the Middle East (Hardcover)
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Arab Occidentalism - Images of America in the Middle East (Hardcover)
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When Barack Obama was elected in 2008, his foreign policy was at
first seen to be the antithesis of that of his predecessor, George
W. Bush. Eid Mohamed highlights how in the wake of this change of
US administration, Arab media, literature and cinema began to
assert the value of America as a potential source of 'change' while
attempting to renegotiate the Arab world's position in the
international system. Arab cultural representation of the United
States has variously changed and developed since 9/11, and again in
the wake of the protests in 2011 and the ensuing political turmoil
in Egypt, Libya, Yemen, and of course, Syria. Taking this into
account, Mohamed offers an examination of the ways in which
stereotypes of America are both presented and challenged through
cinema, fiction and the wider media and intellectual production.
Rather than seeing this process as one where the Middle East reacts
to and attempts to negotiate with western modernity, Mohamed
instead highlights the significant interplay of religion, pop
culture and politics and the role they play in shaping the complex
relation between America and the nations of the Middle East.
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