This book analyses the work of six Arab artists who live and work outside the Arab region, who use various media to express, reflect and represent the human body.It offers a guide to developments in contemporary Arab art, relying on specific theories, and to link the findings to various movements in Arab culture and society in relation to international art. The book studies the impact of Arabic classical erotic literature on Arab art and artists, and focuses on the exploitation of Arab and Islamic culture for the benefit of Western ideologies. It presents a critical and historical analysis of the issue of the veil, demonstrating its importance and place within Islamic societies. It focuses on colonial theories in developing the issues of inferiority and stereotypes. The book examines the term Orientalism and the impact of the media in stereotyping and marginalizing Arabs and Islam. The book investigates the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and looks into the issue of war and dispersion that has affected Arabs physically and spiritually. It deals with the way Arab visual artists reflect the struggle and confrontation, and the resistance of the human body to war and death.

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