Dancing off Patriarchy and Orientalism in Moroccan Pop Singer Manal’s Song Niya: A Tribute to Moroccan Chikhates

30 Oct 2025

Dancing off Patriarchy and Orientalism in Moroccan Pop Singer Manal’s Song Niya: A Tribute to Moroccan Chikhates
Maha Tazi Comment My previous work examined how pop artists in the Arab region are using self-orientalism in their visual artworks to articulate a decolonial critique that aims to subvert the orientalist discourse through an inversion and a reappropriation of the colonial gaze (Tazi, forthcoming). In other words, to borrow from a famous saying by Black feminist Audre Lorde (1984), these artists are “the master’s tools to dismantle…

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Dancing off Patriarchy and Orientalism in Moroccan Pop Singer Manal’s Song Niya: A Tribute to Moroccan Chikhates

Self-orientalism

Dancing off Patriarchy and Orientalism in Moroccan Pop Singer Manal’s Song Niya: A Tribute to Moroccan Chikhates