Category: By Saba Ahmadzadeh Noughani
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Disney’s Aladdin has remained a beloved family favourite for generations, with its humour, music, and spectacle often overshadowing the stereotypes embedded within its storytelling. In both the original animated film (1992) and the live-action remake (2019), Disney replaces the themes of One Thousand and One Nights with familiar Western Orientalist tropes. I explore how the…
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“Houses are murdered just as their inhabitants are killed and the memories of things are slaughtered, wood, stones, glass, iron, mortar – scattered like human limbs. And cotton silk, linen, notebooks, books – all torn apart like the unspoken words of people who did not have the time to say them.” – “The House Murdered”,…
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