ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the construction of an othered landscape and explore how the encounters can be understood in the context of the modern subject and its relationship with place considered to be outside of modernity. It examines the imaginative and emotional construction of the two primary Sinai landscapes and argue that these landscapes are constructed in this way as part of modernity's nostalgic search for home'. The chapter then explores the ways in which geographical and historical imaginations of the desert and paradise as well as identities based on the modern subject, influence the development and marketing of this region and the women who decide to go on holiday there. It shows how these women's ethnosexual encounters with local men are bound up in these temporal/spatial geographical imaginations of place that involve an emotional geography'. The tourist landscape was radically changed by projects instigated by the newly-established Sinai Governorate and Egypt's Tourist Development Authority.
