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EMPIRE BURLESQUE:ANATOMY NOT GEOGRAPHY

For centuries the principal ingredients in the popular Western image of the Middle East have been spirituality and sex. As early as the sixteenth century, European writers were using the second half of this irresistible combination to describe and define … Continue reading

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