Arabland !!

" We inherited the Arab image primarily from Europeans in the early days, maybe
150 years, 200 years ago.  The British and the French who traveled to the Middle East and those who
didn’t travel to the Middle East conjured up these images of the Arab as the oriental other - the
travel writers, the artists who fabricated these images and who were very successful as a matter of
fact. And these images were transmitted and inherited by us. We took them, we embellished them
and here they are."

Reel Bad Arabs, Jack Shaheen.