{"id":10679,"date":"2011-09-05T13:11:41","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T09:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=10679"},"modified":"2011-09-24T14:36:45","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T10:36:45","slug":"emirati-women-as-viewed-in-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/middle-east-business\/middle-east-media-analysis\/emirati-women-as-viewed-in-the-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Emirati Women: As Portrayed in Western Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/emirati-women.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10680\" title=\"emirati women\" src=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/emirati-women-e1315211038288.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/emirati-women-e1315211038288.jpg 498w, https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/emirati-women-e1315211038288-145x92.jpg 145w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a>Salon has a (vaguely) interesting slide <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/life\/feature\/2011\/09\/03\/gulf_women_slideshow\/slideshow.html\">show <\/a>of pictures of Emirati women. To anyone who remotely knows the region, it will show you nothing remotely new. It is mostly, I think, for Americans who don\u2019t know the Gulf to snigger at Emirati women buying or making dresses but not wearing them in public\u2026but by far the most interesting picture is the one above.<\/p>\n<p>Trying as I am to rack my brain now, I really don\u2019t think that I\u2019ve ever come across pictures of Gulfy women toting weapons. Nor, for that matter, does one see photos of disdahas toting guns. Curious (or not\u2026).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hat tip: <\/strong>Sultan Al Qasseimi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAVID ROBERTS: It&#8217;s always interesting to see how Western media choose to represent women from the Middle East.  A slideshow published on U.S website &#8216;Salon&#8217; featuring Emirati women is instructive. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":10680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,173,44,89,482,65,187],"tags":[18316,18302,133,177],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}