God Knows I Tried. An experimental approach to orientalism and the practice of writing. (excerpts)

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The cases of Turkey and Iran are exceptional in that they were never "colonized" in the most extreme sense of the term, that is, neither Turkish nor Iranian cities were ever administered by western authorities. As a result, European research on Turkish and Iranian cities is scant.