{"id":412307,"date":"2021-12-01T09:23:12","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T09:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=226914"},"modified":"2021-12-01T09:23:12","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T09:23:12","slug":"luxury-propaganda-and-books-in-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/12\/01\/luxury-propaganda-and-books-in-the-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Luxury, Propaganda and Books in the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you tried shark? I have just tasted a shark curry, at the Dubai World Expo. There, the countries of the Arabian Peninsula present themselves not so much as they are, but as they would like to be: bombastic videos, huge shiny screens and the acritical grandiloquence of their leaders fill their pavilions. For its  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/12\/01\/luxury-propaganda-and-books-in-the-middle-east\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/12\/01\/luxury-propaganda-and-books-in-the-middle-east\/\">Luxury, Propaganda and Books in the Middle East<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/12\/01\/luxury-propaganda-and-books-in-the-middle-east\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you tried shark? I have just tasted a shark curry, at the Dubai World Expo. There, the countries of the Arabian Peninsula present themselves not so much as they are, but as they would like to be: bombastic videos, huge shiny screens and the acriti&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1755,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1755"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412984,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412307\/revisions\/412984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}