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There is a mirror image or doppleganger effect here, as Abdullah’s look-alike, Abdul-Rahman is not a literal doubling but the artist’s brother; yet both share the same first name. The doubling effect of this photograph is uncanny, as the image of the two brothers resonates in terms of a shadow, alternative persona and of a double consciousness associated with the migrant or outsider (Gilroy 1993).

Two brothers, both named Abdul, are represented, both engraved with tattooed images. Abdullah’s brother, therefore, acts as a literal and metaphorical shadow, attracting and reflecting light in a fragmentary way. The image is one of shared and split subjectivity. The text in English and Arabic is another doubling, of language, where the latter is seen as a primitive expression of a backward culture (Aly 2007: 23-24). The view that othered’ groups are incomplete and unformed was a product of western enlightenment thinking and, remarkably, reiterated by Raymond Williams (Gilroy 1987), despite the achievements of Islamic civilizations, and so Them and Us is a play on the view of Islamic culture as medieval’.

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