الصورة الذهنية للكشوف الجغرافية كما كتبها المستشرقون وصورها الإعلام

Orientalist narratives have long framed geographical explorations as the beginning of a new scientific age, presenting them as heroic “discoveries” of lands supposedly unknown to humanity. Figures such as Columbus, Vasco da Gama, Diaz, and Magellan were elevated as pioneers, while media—ranging from scholarly publications to children's cartoons—reinforced this constructed narrative. This article seeks to critically reassess this portrayal by exploring the true nature of these explorations, examining Western perspectives, and highlighting the role Orientalists played in reshaping their mental image (Clichés). It further investigates the intersection of colonization and exploration, and how media contributed to distorting these events. The research adopts a historical method to trace the European construction of the narrative, followed by a comparative approach contrasting these accounts with those from Muslim geographers and impartial scholars. A synthetic approach will then be used to analyze the interrelation between Orientalism and media, providing evidence of how both contributed to shaping a misleading perception of geographical explorations.