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Amira Jarmakani

is an Associate Professor and Director of the Institute for Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Affiliated Faculty of the Middle East Institute at Georgia State University. She is the author of Imagining Arab Womanhood: The Cultural Mythology of Veils, Harems, and Belly Dancers in the U.S.

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Wild Wild East

By Amira JarmakaniSeptember 9, 2015
America has never stopped repeating stories about cowboys and Indians, even when the frontier is somewhere else
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