Pakistan, July 20 -- An art tradition sometimes dismissed as perpetuating lazy stereotypes about the east will soon - the British Museum hopes - be seen in a different light thanks to a major exhibition exploring how western artists have been inspired by the Islamic world. The museum has announced details of a show that will have the tradition of Orientalism at its core. That term for many people is highly charged, bringing to mind patronising 19th-century oil paintings by colonialist artists depicting a version of life in the Middle East that often did not exist. But for Olivia Threlkeld, co-curator of the exhibition: "Orientalism was one of the defining elements of the 19th and 20th centuries, comparable to other 'isms like surrealism a...