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Europes myths of the orient 1994 and letter to christendom 1989, she has also edited and translated works in arabic and english. Rana kabbani is a syrian cultural historian, writer, poet, and broadcaster who lives in london. The new york times in travel books and orientalist painting, the victorian concept of an erotic east as a grand harem with endless potential for pleasure and perversion fueled romantic imaginations, art, and commerce. Rana kabbani unravels western fantasies and myths about the east. When this article was published kabbani was disappointed to say the least. Europes myths of the orient, pandoraharper collins, london.
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