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Julie Brickman

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The first short story in this book is about a Western Travel agent living in a place she refers to as "Arabiana." She decides she needs to wear the customary dress of the country she's in so she could "explore this swathed, veiled country." She later notes that "dress comprised a complex code for class and ethnicity" but instead of respecting that and realizing she might be trespassing on something she has no right to, she worries she might unknowingly dress herself as a servant or "the wrong kind of Muslim."

And that, folks, is where I stopped reading. I don't find colonialist narratives to be entertaining and really don't want to read stories about western white women disrespecting other cultures.
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