To start with, the movie, from the beginning to the end, portrays Arabs as savages and uncivilized. And that only the Europeans are the civilized ones. And Arabs deal with women as objects, not human beings. And in the whole film, the only ones who felt sorry about the woman were the French novelist and the Sheik, who, at the end, was discovered to not be a barbaric Arab but rather to be a European civilized man. His mother was Spanish, and his father was an Englishman. That is why he didn't enjoy seeing the lady, Diana, suffer. Moreover, he couldn't sexually assault the woman, of course, because he wasn't an Arab, while for that barbaric Omair, who was presented as an Arab, the only thing that he wanted was to sexually assault Lady Diana. In addition, and here I quote, "My presence here! The humiliation of meeting a man from her own world!" In the movie, the quote means that the French novelist feels humiliated when Lady Diana, a woman from his own world, encounters a man in the story who is very different from their culture and is considered uncivilized. This quote highlights the theme of cultural differences and the character's discomfort with these differences. I know this movie is part of film history, but we must get rid of these stereotypes about Orientals.
