Rada AlBarrak
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Rada AlBarrak
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اللهم ارحم أمي و اغفر لها يا كريم a proud Saudi, Nassrawiya 2 the bone
Katılım Nisan 2012
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Calling every lazy, uninformed take on the Gulf (or the Arab world more broadly) “Orientalist,” whether it comes from the West or, amusingly, from the “Orient” itself, gives those writings a seriousness they simply don’t deserve, all the more so in a volatile geopolitical moment when discourse is clearly serving political agendas.
The term “Gulf” itself is already a simplification. It is a geographic shorthand that often erases the region’s internal diversity and folds very different cities, histories, and trajectories into one convenient stereotype. But that’s a story for another day.
In Edward Said’s sense, Orientalism is not a synonym for “ignorant” or “racist” or “stereotypical.” It is something else. It names a whole network of scholars, institutions, and texts claiming expert knowledge about “the Orient” and putting that knowledge in the service of power. It is a dense archive of writings, paintings, maps, travelogues, policy memos, and other such materials. In other words, a sustained intellectual project that helped structure how empires saw and ruled other peoples.
And even if one disagrees with Said’s sweeping generalizations about a whole scholarly tradition (as many so-called “Orientalists” knew the languages and cultures of the region more deeply than Said himself, and produced work that cannot be reduced to imperial propaganda), his basic point is about a long, systematic enterprise.
Most writings about the Gulf today are something much thinner and much narrower. They basically are resentful, non‑specialist, third-rate polemics dressed up as analysis, written to flatter a particular audience and its fantasies about itself. No language training, no historical work, no engagement with the region’s own thinkers, no sense of the Gulf’s and Arabia’s internal diversity or long civilizational arc. Just clichés and click‑bait projections.
Calling this “Orientalism” does two things at once. It misreads Said and flattens a very specific critique into a general insult, and it inflates the kind of writing we are talking about. We shouldn’t dignify shallow commentary and lazy contempt with the vocabulary reserved for serious, if sometimes dangerous, intellectual enterprises.
And the Gulf, meanwhile, is under no obligation to explain itself to every loud, ill‑informed attack, from the “Cities of Salt” to the “Cities of Sand”. It is busy doing something else. Its peoples are busy governing, building, imagining, and creating. And its realities are already speaking more clearly than the fantasies of its detractors.
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Artwork: Claudia Comte, Dark Suns, Bright Waves, Desert X AlUla 2022, AlUla, Saudi Arabia.
Image: Courtesy Desert X.




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We have reached an important Arrangement between the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and the Ministry of Defense of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on defense cooperation. The document was signed ahead of our meeting with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud. It lays the foundation for future contracts, technological cooperation, and investment. It also strengthens Ukraine’s international role as a security donor.
We are ready to share our expertise and systems with Saudi Arabia and to work together to strengthen the protection of lives. Now into the fifth year, Ukrainians are resisting the same kind of terrorist attacks – ballistic missiles and drones – that the Iranian regime is currently carrying out in the Middle East and the Gulf region. Saudi Arabia also has capabilities that are of interest to Ukraine, and this cooperation can be mutually beneficial.
We also discussed the situation in the Middle East and the Gulf region as a whole, Russia’s assistance to the Iranian regime, developments in fuel markets, and potential energy cooperation.
Thank you for the meeting.




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