Word: bedouinã
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Dates: during 2005-2005
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Pondering this resilience of the capitalist system, I encounter, inside the Selfridges department store, an Arab-themed café offering its customers a “Bedouin?? experience: on colorful cushions in a tent-like structure, young women surrounded by their shopping bags smoke hookah pipes. At this most superficial of levels, the commercial complex is able to combine Islamic and Western elements without any of the problems which crease the brows of the country’s politicians. Appearing on the BBC, Tony Blair, the British prime minister, and Jack Straw, the foreign minister, anxiously stress that...
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