Remember those good times when public/private has was a challenging paradigm for the Middle East? With this #fail, those days will look like la belle époque. Our reader Nazli Ozkan submitted these luxury market stores, named after Haremlik/Selamlık in Turkish, only with a self-Orientalizing twist via French, and we are oscillating between cringe and laughter while featuring them. #aftersaidat5 #orientalism #haremlique #selamlique #selforientalism














