4.621
Orientalism and Representation
Instructor: Nada Shabout
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Units: 3-0-9
Level: H
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor
This seminar addresses a number of key encounters (events, texts, architectural projects, and images) during the modern age and explores contemporary "new Orientalist" political ideologies and how they inform the construction and reproduction of the current knowledge about the Middle East. The discussion will particularly focus on exhibitions organized by Western and/or local curators in the West and the Middle East presenting contemporary cultural production from the Middle East in terms of choices, criteria, ethics and themes of display.
