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Abstract The article aims to identify and discuss the journalistic framings about Middle Eastern women in the Brazilian press. Our corpus consists of articles published by the newspapers Folha de S. Paulo and O Globo, between January 1 and May 31, 2018. We articulate the concept of Orientalism proposed by Edward Said to gender studies developed mainly by Maryam Khalid, Hamideh Sedghi and Azadeh Kian-Thiébaut, understanding how Orientalist conceptions operate in journalistic narratives. The methodology applied was Content Analysis, in its thematic-category modality. We identified that the narratives are anchored in the idea of westernization of the region, in which women are shown towards a transition to the idealization of modernity, but still linked to traditionally orientalist conceptions.

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