Graduation Year
Spring 2014
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Department
Art History
Reader 1
Mary MacNaughton
Reader 2
Phyllis Jackson
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© 2014 Shayda Amanat
Abstract
This thesis explores how today’s Sheherazades, in this case women photographers from the Middle East, create alternative representations that constitute new meanings and understandings of life, gender, and politics in Iran and the Arab world.
Recommended Citation
Amanat, Shayda, "Iran and the Arab World Through A Female Lens: Deconstructing Western Phantasms and Terrors" (2014). Scripps Senior Theses. 428.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/428
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.