Category: by Tilda Walker

• We are still a Faculty of Oriental Studies

  3–5 minutes

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  September 19, 2025

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  by Tilda Walker, Michaelmas 2025

  It is no secret that the history of Arabic studies at Oxford is inseparable from British imperialism. Our department’s name change in 2022 did not paint over its orientalist past – nor should it, or did it, try to.  On the surface, times may have changed since the study of “oriental” languages and cultures was…