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The Gay Girl in Damascus Hoax
Progressive Orientalism and the Arab Spring
Taschenbuch von Andrew Orr
Sprache: Englisch

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The Gay Girl in Damascus Hoax explores the vulnerability of educated and politically engaged Westerners to Progressive Orientalism, a form of Orientalism embedded within otherwise egalitarian and anti-imperialist Western thought. Early in the Arab Spring, the Gay Girl in Damascus blog appeared. Its author claimed to be Amina Arraf, a Syrian American lesbian Muslim woman living in Damascus. After the blog¿s went viral in April 2011, Western journalists electronically interviewed Amina, magnifying the blog¿s claim that the Syrian uprising was an ethnically and religiously pluralist movement anchored in an expansive sense of social solidarity. However, after a post announced that the secret police had kidnapped Amina, journalists and activists belatedly realized that Amina did not exist and Thomas ¿Tom¿ MacMaster, a forty-year-old straight white American man and peace activist living and studying medieval history in Scotland was the blog¿s true author. MacMaster¿s hoax succeeded by melding his and his audience¿s shared political and cultural beliefs into a falsified version of the Syrian Revolution that validated their views of themselves as anti-racist and anti-imperialist progressives by erasing real Syrians.
Watch our book talk with the author Andrew Orr here: [...]
The Gay Girl in Damascus Hoax explores the vulnerability of educated and politically engaged Westerners to Progressive Orientalism, a form of Orientalism embedded within otherwise egalitarian and anti-imperialist Western thought. Early in the Arab Spring, the Gay Girl in Damascus blog appeared. Its author claimed to be Amina Arraf, a Syrian American lesbian Muslim woman living in Damascus. After the blog¿s went viral in April 2011, Western journalists electronically interviewed Amina, magnifying the blog¿s claim that the Syrian uprising was an ethnically and religiously pluralist movement anchored in an expansive sense of social solidarity. However, after a post announced that the secret police had kidnapped Amina, journalists and activists belatedly realized that Amina did not exist and Thomas ¿Tom¿ MacMaster, a forty-year-old straight white American man and peace activist living and studying medieval history in Scotland was the blog¿s true author. MacMaster¿s hoax succeeded by melding his and his audience¿s shared political and cultural beliefs into a falsified version of the Syrian Revolution that validated their views of themselves as anti-racist and anti-imperialist progressives by erasing real Syrians.
Watch our book talk with the author Andrew Orr here: [...]
Über den Autor
Andrew Orr, Kansas State University, Manhattan KS, USA.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: ISSN
Inhalt: XI
161 S.
ISBN-13: 9783111628394
ISBN-10: 3111628396
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Orr, Andrew
Hersteller: De Gruyter
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
ISSN
Maße: 230 x 155 x 10 mm
Von/Mit: Andrew Orr
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.11.2024
Gewicht: 0,268 kg
Artikel-ID: 129973280
Über den Autor
Andrew Orr, Kansas State University, Manhattan KS, USA.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: ISSN
Inhalt: XI
161 S.
ISBN-13: 9783111628394
ISBN-10: 3111628396
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Orr, Andrew
Hersteller: De Gruyter
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
ISSN
Maße: 230 x 155 x 10 mm
Von/Mit: Andrew Orr
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.11.2024
Gewicht: 0,268 kg
Artikel-ID: 129973280
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