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Podcast: Arts & Ideas
Episode: East Meets West
Description: As the British Museum opens an exhibition on orientalism Inspired by the East, Matthew Sweet's guests include Ziauddin Sardar, editor of Critical Muslim, artist Inci Eviner, and historian Tom Holland, whose new book explores the Making of the Western Mind. Plus cultural critic Fatima Bhutto argues that the days of US inspired culture dominating the world are over and art forms from the global south such as Bollywood films, K-Pop and Turkish telenovelas are taking over.Fatima Bhutto's book is called New Kings of the World: Dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi, and K-PopCritical Muslim is...