While Chu’s film is celebrated as a diversity win in the West, in the East it’s seen as more of the same Western gaze.
Nazry Bahrawi
Nazry Bahrawi is a literary and cultural critic at Singapore University of Technology and Design. He specialises in the study of Muslim texts and thou... ghts in Southeast Asia and the Middle East.
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