Category: Trinity 2026
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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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Sara al-Nemrat The winner of the 2024 World Press Photo of the Year was an image depicting a Palestinian woman cradling her niece wrapped in a white shroud, taken by Palestinian photojournalist Mohammed Salem. This is not a mere individual accolade, but indicative of the imprint that journalism emerging from Gaza has left on the…
The Oxford Arabist 