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hat tip- Mason at Dearborn Historical Society
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
Exterior of a recently-closed restaurant on Warren Avenue in Dearborn, MI (photo from 2014).
Advertisement in Arab American publication, 1981.
Note posted on door of Yemeni-owned restaurant in Hamtramck, MI, in 2014.
Advertisement for long-running Arab American magazine.
Advertisement for two restaurants, The Fez and Antoine’s Sheik, as well as a radio show named The Caravan, 1976.
Advertisement for Omar’s Oasis in Arab American publication, 1976,