Hey guys,

To kick off our blog, I am posting two videos below that I wanted to show on Wednesday, but you all know how that went. Because we are a bit short on time, and there is another video I want to show on Monday, I figured I can just ask you to watch them before class. The first one is called "The Planet of Arabs" –a montage of a number of movie scenes that shows you what the Orient as an archive looks like in popular culture. The second one, in case you find these dated, is from Sex and the City II. You might say but no one takes that movie seriously, think that it made close to 300 million dollars world-wide.