“The article purports itself to uncover “the inner workings of Arab behavior,” which from our point of view is “aberrant” but for Arabs is “normal” ( Said 48). Throughout the article Said uses multiple people trying to explain how the Western world is above Egypt because of how they act and govern themselves. He explains […]
By Sofia Tartakovskaya 09/11/22 1.“So has the drab fabric of life been transformed into the gossamer of romance, as these stories.” (Haddawy, page X) – With these stories, the dreadful reality of our life changes into anything we could ever imagine. -These stories are like out-of-reach dreams that life will never really have. -The romantic […]
Sofia Tartakovskaya- 09/20/2022 It was hard to elaborate for the full 15 minutes based on what we thought was really good or well done, but the discussion group agreed that for the time that it was made, it was pretty good production value. This is a children’s story so it gave us all nostalgia, but […]
Sofia Tartakovskaya- 09/13/2022 I think this interpretation of the Arabian Nights is very engaging, there are many things that keep you drawn in but compared to modern books that everyone understands, this is definitely different. What was mostly hard to follow was all the different changes throughout the text with no character or story development […]
Throughout the article Said uses multiple people trying to explain how the Western world is above Egypt because of how they act and govern themselves. He explains how ‘knowledge is power’, and since the only European knowledge of The Orient is that the Arabs are dumb, dirty, cant follow directions, etc: England wants to take […]
