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Les grands récits de l'histoire de l'humanité s'accordent à rappeler que l'homme s'est très tôt attaché à recueillir les données topographiques du monde, afin de mieux comprendre et s'approprier ses valeurs matérielles et immatérielles, ses richesses et son énergie existentielle. Pour les pays d'Occident et en particulier pour l'Europe, l'Orient a très tôt constitué un horizon attirant de désirs et de voyages, comme un paradis perdu, un monde originel. Sans prétendre à l'exhaustivité, cet ouvrage, fruit des travaux du colloque international « Parcourir le monde : les voyages d'Orient » (Paris, École nationale des chartes, 22-23 mars 2012), a souhaité contribuer, par quelques exemples comme autant d'étapes clés d'une longue histoire, à la compréhension de quelques enjeux de la cartographie, majeurs pour l'histoire du dialogue complexe des cultures et des civilisations, et plus particulièrement pour l'histoire des relations entre l'orientale Arabie et l'Occident.

Cartography --- East and West --- History --- Middle East --- in literature --- Description and travel --- Asia, South West --- Asia, Southwest --- Asia, West --- Asia, Western --- East (Middle East) --- Eastern Mediterranean --- Fertile Crescent --- Levant --- Mediterranean Region, Eastern --- Mideast --- Near East --- Northern Tier (Middle East) --- South West Asia --- Southwest Asia --- West Asia --- Western Asia --- Orient --- occident --- histoire --- orient --- voyage

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Following the much-publicized self-immolation of Muhammad Bouazizi on 18 December 2010, a tempestuous succession of demonstrations, revolutions and civil wars swept the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. These events, collectively referred to as the “Arab Spring,” spread contagiously throughout the Middle East and the Maghreb. But instead of ushering in tidy transitions of power in autocratic regimes, the revolutions and uprisings ushered in a state of chaos, which greatly complicates the task of analysts and historians whose job it is to make sense of what has taken place. Will the Arab Spring bring much needed change that benefits the Arab peoples or will instability and turmoil keep the Middle East in a perpetual state of what some have termed the "Arab winter"?Lost in Translation: New Paradigms for the Arab Spring is a contributory work by Middle East experts. As well as political and social analysis of the events and aftermath of the Arab Spring, the work provides a complex of paradigms (ranging from complexity studies to sport) which have thus far been overlooked by scholars and commentators in their assessments of Arab Spring manifestations. The result is unprecedented insights into the myriad forces that have inhibited genuine political and social transformations in the states of the Middle East and North Africa

Arab Spring, 2010 --- -Arab Awakening, 2010 --- -Influence. --- Middle East --- Asia, South West --- Asia, Southwest --- Asia, West --- Asia, Western --- East (Middle East) --- Eastern Mediterranean --- Fertile Crescent --- Levant --- Mediterranean Region, Eastern --- Mideast --- Near East --- Northern Tier (Middle East) --- South West Asia --- Southwest Asia --- West Asia --- Western Asia --- Orient --- Politics and government --- Social conditions

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This book identifies a strand of what it calls "Accidental Orientalism" in narratives by Italians who found themselves in Ottoman Egypt and Anatolia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through historical accident and who wrote about their experiences in Italian, English, and French. Among them are young woman, Amalia Nizzoli, who learned Arabic, conversed the inhabitants of an Ottoman-Egpytian harem, and wrote a memoir in Italian; a young man, Giovanni Finati, who converted to Islam, passed as Albanian in Muhammad Ali's Egypt, and published his memoir in English; a strongman turned antiquarian, Giovanni Belzoni, whose narrative account in English documents the looting of antiquities by Europeans in Egypt ; a princess and patriot, Cristina Trivulzio di Belgiojoso, who lived in exile in Anatolia and wrote in French condemning the Ottoman harem and proposing social reforms in in the Ottoman empire; and an early twentieth century anarchist and anti-colonialist, Leda Rafanelli, who converted to Islam, wrote prolifically, and posed before the camera in an Orient of her own fashioning. Crossing class, gender, dress, and religious boundaries as they move about the Mediterranean basin, their accounts variously reconfigure, reconsolidate, and often destabilize the imagined East-West divide. Ranging widely on an affective spectrum from Islamophobia to Islamophilia, their narratives are the occasion for the book's reflection on the practices of cultural cross-dressing, conversion to Islam, and passing and posing as Muslim on the part of Italians who had themselves the object of an Orientalization on the part of Northern Europeans, and whose language had long been the lingua franca of the Mediterranean.

Italians --- Ethnology --- History --- Middle East --- Asia, South West --- Asia, Southwest --- Asia, West --- Asia, Western --- East (Middle East) --- Eastern Mediterranean --- Fertile Crescent --- Levant --- Mediterranean Region, Eastern --- Mideast --- Near East --- Northern Tier (Middle East) --- South West Asia --- Southwest Asia --- West Asia --- Western Asia --- Orient --- Civilization

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Christianity --- Christianity. --- Religion. --- Middle East --- Middle East. --- Religion --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Church history --- Asia, Western --- Eastern Mediterranean --- Eastern Mediterranean Region --- Fertile Crescent --- Levant --- Mideast --- Near East --- South West --- Southwest Asia --- West Asia --- Western Asia --- Asia --- Asia, South West --- Asia, Southwest --- Asia, West --- East (Middle East) --- Mediterranean Region, Eastern --- Northern Tier (Middle East) --- South West Asia --- Orient

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Arab Spring, 2010 --- -Protest movements --- History --- Arab countries --- Middle East --- Politics and government --- Politics and government. --- Social movements --- Arab Awakening, 2010 --- -History --- Asia, South West --- Asia, Southwest --- Asia, West --- Asia, Western --- East (Middle East) --- Eastern Mediterranean --- Fertile Crescent --- Levant --- Mediterranean Region, Eastern --- Mideast --- Near East --- Northern Tier (Middle East) --- South West Asia --- Southwest Asia --- West Asia --- Western Asia --- Orient --- Arab world --- Arabic countries --- Arabic-speaking states --- Islamic countries