{"id":30,"date":"2016-01-21T06:40:47","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T06:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/dvarisco\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2016-01-21T06:40:47","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T06:40:47","slug":"cyberorient","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/dvarisco\/cyberorient\/","title":{"rendered":"CyberOrient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><span class=\"weInlineTitle\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberorient.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">CyberOrient<\/a><br \/>\nOnline Journal of the Virtual Middle East<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"weInlineTitle\">ISSN 1804-3194<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Editor-in-Chief:\u00a0 Daniel Martin Varisco<br \/>\nManaging Editor:\u00a0 Vit Sisler<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span class=\"weQuotation\"><em>\u201cThe Orient was almost a European invention, and had been since antiquity a place of romance, exotic beings, haunting memories and landscapes, remarkable experiences.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 Edward Said, Orientalism (1978)<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\nIf the West invented the Orient for itself, how much more Edward Said\u2019s comments ring true for the newly created CyberOrient, the representation of people and cultures in the imagined intellectual space of an over-imagined Orient, politicized Middle East and diverse Islamic world.\u00a0 In the real world bombs go off, bullets tear apart flesh, buildings are burned and hatred is bred and spread on a daily basis.\u00a0 These same events can be simulated on the Internet, but the real story is how this new technology fosters a virtual reality in which representation seemingly becomes as real in impact as the reality we live and die in.\u00a0 The virtual Middle East and Islam in cyberspace:\u00a0 this is the focus of the new online journal <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberorient.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">CyberOrient<\/a><\/em>, sponsored by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaanet.org\/\">the American Anthropological Association<\/a> and based at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ff.cuni.cz\/\">Faculty of Arts <\/a>of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cuni.cz\/\">Charles University in Prague<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CyberOrient Online Journal of the Virtual Middle East ISSN 1804-3194 Editor-in-Chief:\u00a0 Daniel Martin Varisco Managing Editor:\u00a0 Vit Sisler \u201cThe Orient [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/dvarisco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/dvarisco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/dvarisco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/dvarisco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/dvarisco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/dvarisco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/dvarisco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/dvarisco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}