Desert level music is nice, real middle eastern music is nice as well. You should know about “light in babylon” they are great and somewhere in between those two.

Westerner here.

If disturbs me how accurate this is, and how I never realized it till just now.

Ironically, while Persian is stereotyped as “luxury arabic” Iranian is stereotyped as “evil arabic”.

American perceptions in one image. Persians in the palace, Arabs in the slums.

I work very hard to inspect my own preconceived biases and assumptions, and I find it very uncomfortable when someone just drops one right in front of me that I had never even realized I held… Uncomfortable doesn’t mean bad. But dammit, how am I in a picture I didn’t even know the photographer of existed?