Table of Contents
Editors’ Note
Introduction
Orient and Occident: Traditional Thinking – Current Consequences – Future Perspectives
Veronika Bernard (Innsbruck and Kufstein/ Austria): Mutual Perceptions – A Look at the 2000-2010 State of East-West Discourse in Germany and Austria
Serhan Oksay (Istanbul/ Turkey): Evolution of the Turkish Culture: From Pastoral Nomadic to Modern Islamic?
Eugene Sensenig-Dabbous (Zouk Mosbeh/ Lebanon): The First Victim of War – Considering Leftist Orientalism in the War Reporting of Richard A. Bermann and John Reed
Cultural Positions
Bassem Kamel (Jounieh/ Lebanon): Edward Said and the Intellectual ‘Intifada’
Dirk Rochtus (Antwerp/ Belgium): Increasing ‘Orientalism’ in Turkish Foreign Policy?
Frank F. Scherer (Toronto/ Canada): Freud’s Turkey: Psychoanalysis and the Vicissitudes of Orientalism
Gernot Wolfram (Kufstein/ Austria): Expected Conflicts? Intercultural Competence Beyond Concepts of Otherness in Event Management in Sports and Culture
Mechanisms and Targets of Stereotyping
Veronika Bernard (Innsbruck and Kufstein/ Austria): ‘Who am I, and how can I be me?’ – A Desired Europeaness as the Turkish ‘Other’ in Orhan Pamuk’s Writing
Mohamad Masad (Dubai/ UAE): Mutual Stereotypes between Locals and Expatriates in the UAE
Tina Sleiman (Dubai/ UAE): Altering Perceptions: Exploring how Images Contribute to Stereotyping of Arabs
The Media and the General Public
Fatih Okumuş (Amsterdam/ The Netherlands): (In)visibility of Islam in the Public Sphere in Europe
Stephan Sielschott (Marburg/ Germany): On Terrorists and Top Athletes: A Frame-Analysis of Stereotypical Evaluations of Muslims by East German Regional Newspapers
Rogier Visser (Amsterdam/ The Netherlands): Censorship and Westernization in Beirut: Al-Nahla’s Downfall (Beirut, 1870)
Kutlay Yağmur (Tilburg/ The Netherlands): Ways of Promoting or Blocking Intercultural Understanding in the National and Ethnic Media
Journeys between Cultures, Real and Metaphorical
Veronika Bernard (Innsbruck and Kufstein/ Austria): All Evil Comes from the East – A Vampire and the Cholera as the Agents of an (East-born) Threat to Western Society in Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice
Atalay Gündüz (Izmir/ Turkey): Stereotyping and Constructions of the ‘Other’ as ‘Strategies of Symbolic Containment and Risk’ in Travel Writing
Naji Oueijan (Zouk Mosbeh/ Lebanon): Western Travelers and the Orientals
The Editors
The Contributors