This provides a commentary on images, specifically on a series of French postcards depicting mainly eroticized "scenes from Algerian life" under colonial rule during the first three decades of this century (which Alloula calls the "Golden Age of the colonial postcard"). The aim is to address, to som ...
Chronology -- Introduction -- The development of photography in the Middle East -- The seen, the unseen and the imagined: private and public lives -- Family portraits -- Dressing the part -- Working women -- Women in the public eye -- The spread of education -- Campaigning women -- Afterword., Sarah ...
