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Middle Eastern Americana: Beyond Orientalism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2009

Jonathan Friedlander
Jonathan Friedlander*
Affiliation:
Center for Near Eastern Studies, UCLA International Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Calif.; e-mail: [email protected]
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From a float decorated as their ibis-headed Egyptian namesake, tarboosh-topped members of the Krewe of Thoth toss trinkets to happy throngs along St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans. The occasion is Mardi Gras—not a day but a season in this legendary American city. Along with Thoth parade the krewes (social clubs) of Babylon, Isis, and Cleopatra, among others, the last group winding through Algiers, the second-oldest neighborhood in New Orleans, on the west bank of the Mississippi across from the French Quarter.

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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 41 , Issue 3 , August 2009 , pp. 362 - 364
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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NOTES

1 “History,” City of Opa-Locka, Florida, http://www.opalockafl.gov/Home/AboutOpalocka/tabid/117/Default.aspx (accessed 23 January 2009).

2 “History of the Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival,” http://www.datefest.org/Portals/0/mediaKit/8%20-%20History%20of%20Fair.pdf (accessed 23 January 2009); “Agriculture: Rich Crop Diversity,” VillageProfile.com, http://www.villageprofile.com/california/indio/indio18.html (accessed 23 January 2009).

3 “History,” Krewe of Thoth, http://www.thothkrewe.com/history.htm (accessed 23 January 2009).