Those sexy Arabs

[Al-khiyal]

She is a slender blonde from a western country, with long, flowing hair. He is a mysterious dark-eyed sheikh from the east - and fabulously rich. When their paths cross he is smitten by her beauty, and by fate or trickery she is whisked off to his desert kingdom, with little prospect of escape.

While he declares his undying love for her, she remains unsure about him. In the end, though, he proves his worth by fending off his jealous brothers and other foes. After surviving a few terrorist attacks, robberies, kidnappings and that sort of thing, the couple finally turn their attention to perfumed baths and nights of unbridled passion.

That, more or less, is the standard plot for "desert sheikh" novels - a type of romantic fiction that is read by millions of women in the west, especially in the United States, but ignored (for understandable reasons) by all self-respecting literary reviewers.

Sheikh novels appear to have taken off around the year 2000. In the 1980s and 1990s only a few such stories were published but 12-16 new titles have appeared every year since. The events of 9/11, the war on terror and the invasion of Iraq have done nothing to diminish their popularity - if anything, they have increased it.....

Those sexy Arabs


Abduction and forcible confinement: Human rights violation or frisky romantic adventure?

Map showing the location of gorgeous Arab heart-throbs – who make ALL your dreams come true:



The website women want: Sheikhs and Desert Love

[rimas]

I like this one:
Beauty and the Sheikh

[nouha]

good to see constantine made that list

[Al-khiyal]

Just as Jack G. Shaheen's book Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood vilifies a people explains how stereotypes and prejudices are created using the medium of film, the article shows how millions in the West are being fed no less prejudiced and ill-informed stereotypes through the medium of the written word. It is not a bad thing to learn of how and why others think as they do and shrinking away from the materials they use to form their opinions is not particularly helpful in this regard.

[Bent_Bladi]

hey, khiyal... are u algerian? if not, then where are u from?

*ahem, sorry for digressing*

back to the topic

What the hell!! these white ppl know nothing... they could have called it beauty and the amir or something... but sheikh?! don't they know that's a friggin religious figure...?!

i guess another attempt to make arabs sound like uncurable perverts

[Al-khiyal]

(ana min al 3iraq ya Bent Bladi, min wain inti?)

[Bent_Bladi]

min souriya... inte (or inti) shab aw binit? hehe

*and just to stay on topic*

the guy in the arab headdress looks like an italian...