Pre-colonial Kabyle and Middle Eastern towns offered no outside-and-inside observer position

Evidence

The subject was set up outside the façades, like the visitor to an exhibition, and yet was surrounded and contained by them. It was a position at once both outside and inside. In contrast, the Kabyle village or the pre-colonial Middle Eastern town provided no such position. The architectural feint of façades and viewpoints was not at work. The individual did not stand outside an object world as the one addressed by it, nor at its centre as the one in terms of whom, as it seems to us, there is an order and a meaning. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 202