Nasserite dictatorship, 20, 28, 57

Nasserite socialism, 21

1952 revolution, 23, 38, 9/11, 1, 3, 7, 70, 114, 116116, 117, 222

War on terror, 70, 145

Odalisques, 110, 112, 113

Matisse, 110, 111, 113

oral narratives, 181, 215, 216

orientalism, 6, 121

politics of location, 11, 84, 125, 127

rozas, 127, 129, 138

Scheherazad, vii, 3, 9, 10, 67–70, 72, 90, 100, 102, 106, 114, 118, 229

Shahrayar, 67, 102, 103, 217, 218

subaltern, 129, 232

Suez Canal, 21, 28, 41

Suez war, 41

third space, 2, 4, 69, 71, 94, 13, 160, 190, 194, 197, 198, 211, 212

doubleness, 4, 10, 11

in-betweenness, 11

median state, 10

split-vision, 10, 11, 68, 71, 72, 80, 85, 86, 114, 121, 124, 231

third world women, 15, 63, 227, 230

reclamation, 194

restitution, 194

veil, 3, 4, 7, 14, 88, 93–100, 110, 114, 120, 180, 204–206

vizier, 67

Western ethnocentrism, 47, 48, 66, 225