Give some examples of how Westerners have imagined “Arabia.” (Answers may vary.)
What will be an ideal response?
• ". . . [F]anciful images of a timeless ‘Arabia' through art, literature, film and popular culture . . . [producing] some wonderful images as well as some misleading stereotypes."
• The Arabian Nights or "Aladdin and the Magic Lamp"
• Western art music masterpieces inspired by the so-called Orient.
• American pop music of the 1920s and 30s with songs like the "Sheik of Araby"
• Motion pictures such as Casablanca, Lawrence of Arabia, and (the animated) Aladdin
• Popular imagination of this vast area is also fueled by current events and news reports about the Middle East.
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