Reina Lewis is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of East London. She is author of Rethinking Orientalism: Women, Travel and the Ottoman Harem and Gendering Orientalism: Race, Femininity and Representation. She is editor, with Sara Mills, of Feminist Postcolonial Theory. Nancy Micklewright is a Program Officer at the Getty Foundation in Los Angeles. She previously taught Islamic art and architecture and the history of photography at the University of Victoria, Canada, and is author of A Victorian Traveler in the Middle East: The Photography and Travel Writing of Annie Lady Brassey

'The selections in this volume remind us that conversation as well as confrontation has shaped histories of "East-West" encounter, even if different parties to dialogue have not had even or equal access to audiences for their writing...a timely reminder that often parallel debates over gender and societal efficacy were taking place simultaneously in Istanbul, Cairo, London and New York.' Marilyn Booth, author, May Her Likes be Multiplied: Biography and Gender Politics in Egypt

Reina Lewis is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of East London. She is author of Rethinking Orientalism: Women, Travel and the Ottoman Harem and Gendering Orientalism: Race, Femininity and Representation. She is editor, with Sara Mills, of Feminist Postcolonial Theory. Nancy Micklewright is a Program Officer at the Getty Foundation in Los Angeles. She previously taught Islamic art and architecture and the history of photography at the University of Victoria, Canada, and is author of A Victorian Traveler in the Middle East: The Photography and Travel Writing of Annie Lady Brassey

'The selections in this volume remind us that conversation as well as confrontation has shaped histories of "East-West" encounter, even if different parties to dialogue have not had even or equal access to audiences for their writing...a timely reminder that often parallel debates over gender and societal efficacy were taking place simultaneously in Istanbul, Cairo, London and New York.' Marilyn Booth, author, May Her Likes be Multiplied: Biography and Gender Politics in Egypt

Reina Lewis is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of East London. She is author of Rethinking Orientalism: Women, Travel and the Ottoman Harem and Gendering Orientalism: Race, Femininity and Representation. She is editor, with Sara Mills, of Feminist Postcolonial Theory. Nancy Micklewright is a Program Officer at the Getty Foundation in Los Angeles. She previously taught Islamic art and architecture and the history of photography at the University of Victoria, Canada, and is author of A Victorian Traveler in the Middle East: The Photography and Travel Writing of Annie Lady Brassey

'The selections in this volume remind us that conversation as well as confrontation has shaped histories of "East-West" encounter, even if different parties to dialogue have not had even or equal access to audiences for their writing...a timely reminder that often parallel debates over gender and societal efficacy were taking place simultaneously in Istanbul, Cairo, London and New York.' Marilyn Booth, author, May Her Likes be Multiplied: Biography and Gender Politics in Egypt