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Orientalism — the fascination with an exoticized Arab world that reached fever pitch with imperial expansion in the late nineteenth century — could take surprising forms, which indicate the instability of ideas of “Europe” and “the West”. The French Orientalist painter Albert Pierre-René Maignan (1845-1908) …