Orientalism and western cultural representation : media campaigns against Muslims

Abstract EN

Nowadays, Islam is still considered by many Westerners as violent and threatening, because the way it is presented and portrayed in the Western media, is still based on the perceptions and stereotypes that were established by Orientalists in their books and pictures during the 18th and 19th centuries.

Therefore, the negative cultural representations of Islam and Muslims in the Western mass media, especially Hollywood movies, are still dominating the Western mentality and culture which has troubled the relationship between Muslim and Western societies and ignited hatred and violence.