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renched in the constraints of poverty, injustice and deprivation.
There are other qualities that Chabrol attributed to the Egyptians, including, but
not exclusively, the love of the Egyptians, as he said, to the pleasures of life, music,
singing and telling tales and evenings, and the tendency to quarrel, especially among
the public "They insults each other, screaming violently, threaten each other, and
even come into contact with sticks, then disperse without reaching them any further,
and their quarrels rarely reach more dangerous results."
Thus, Orientalism has been embodied, once in images, once in words, and a third
in both, in an attempt of the desirable biased identification of the self of the other in
order to deny it and its subjects, controlling it, and also to identify more the western
self, asserting its dominance and superiority. In all, there is a fertile memory, inflamed
imagination, and infinite desires.
Dr. Shaker Abdel Hamid
Paris, Cairo, City of Graves, Chisel thick line engraving, 49 x 75 cm.
200
There are other qualities that Chabrol attributed to the Egyptians, including, but
not exclusively, the love of the Egyptians, as he said, to the pleasures of life, music,
singing and telling tales and evenings, and the tendency to quarrel, especially among
the public "They insults each other, screaming violently, threaten each other, and
even come into contact with sticks, then disperse without reaching them any further,
and their quarrels rarely reach more dangerous results."
Thus, Orientalism has been embodied, once in images, once in words, and a third
in both, in an attempt of the desirable biased identification of the self of the other in
order to deny it and its subjects, controlling it, and also to identify more the western
self, asserting its dominance and superiority. In all, there is a fertile memory, inflamed
imagination, and infinite desires.
Dr. Shaker Abdel Hamid
Paris, Cairo, City of Graves, Chisel thick line engraving, 49 x 75 cm.
200
