In fact, the West has seen its Orientalist stereotype contradicted with the photos illustrating women leaders in the revolutions.

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Writer, poet, legal specialist and Portuguese Orientalist, he is currently President of the Centre for Arab and Portuguese Studies at Silves.

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He was also, like his father, a dedicated Orientalist with a roving eye for the textiles of cultures past and present.

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Orientalist stereotyping, as Edward Said has well argued, leads easily to demonisation.

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Orientalist paintings, as they are called, refer to 19th century images of the Orient, an area roughly corresponding to the present-day Middle East, North Africa and Turkey.

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Sotheby's, taking full advantage of the Orientalist craze, went out of its way to market the painting by exhibiting it in both New York and London, thereby drawing international attention.

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