The Importance of Othering in a Multicultural Society

The title of the book is losing Istanbul and it's about losing even the space of like where they live in Taj-Vee here. So basically what I'm trying to argue is that the word Arab and describing someone as Arab or identifying with someone who is described as Arab becomes problematic much earlier than we think. As an Arab Ottoman imperialist living in Istanbul you are invested in defining yourself as an elite member of that society which starts to sound and talk and later identify as white. That to me was very telling once you look for it and you'll start to find it, there's no better place to find it than from someone who is experiencing this shift happen.