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Beauty and the Beast: Photography, Body and Sexual Discourse in the Middle East

2021-03-17

A ground-breaking double volume full-colour issue.

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Vol 5 No 1-2: Beauty and the Beast: Photography, Body and Sexual Discourse in the Middle East

A double volume (5 & 6) full-colour special issue: Beauty and the Beast: Photography, Body and Sexual Discourse in the Middle East

Published: 2021-03-17

Introduction

Chief Editor’s introduction

Pedram Khosronejad
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Articles

Between the abstraction of miniatures and the literalism of photography Amateur erotica in early twentieth-century Turkey

İrvİn Cemİl Schick
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King’s camera erotica Naser al-Din Shah and his collaborators inside the royal harem

Pedram Khosronejad
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Queering archives of photography Imperialism, homoeroticism and desire in Middle Eastern contemporary art

Andrew Gayed
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Performing critique Chaza Charafeddine’s Divine Comedy as an inter-temporal dialogue on gender and sexual diversity

Charlotte Bank
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Erotic images and imagery in the early Qajar period A study in projection, adaptation, adoption and appropriation

Manoutchehr Eskandari-Qajar
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Research Notes

Eroticism and nudity in Iranian photography From royal harem to the red-light districts (a century of visual review)

Pedram Khosronejad
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Dust `Ali Khan ‘Mo`ayyer al-Mamalek’ Scion of a once powerful family; witness to the end of an era

Manoutchehr M. Eskandari-Qajar
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Fajouriyeh, an exceptional Persian pornographic manuscript of Qajar-era Iran

Pedram Khosronejad
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Unveiling the veiled: Royal consorts, slaves and prostitutes in Qajar photographs An exhibition at the McCune Library, UC Santa Barbara

Pedram Khosronejad, Manoutchehr M. Eskandari-Qajar
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Book Reviews

Film Reviews

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