Muhajababes

Author : Allegra Stratton
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0522853250

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Muhajababes by Allegra Stratton Pdf

Meet Allegra Stratton, hip young journalist. She's been wrong about the war in Iraq, fallen out with her friend, and is fast approaching a quarter-life crisis. In her disillusionment she takes herself to Beirut, Amman, Cairo, Dubai, Kuwait City and Damascus to understand what daily life is like for Arabs of her own age. She finds that two-thirds of the Middle East population is younger than 25. That there are more graduates than at any time in history, but few jobs to go round.The youth are trying to come to terms with the Middle Eastern ripple of change: Iraq's first post-Saddam elections, Lebanon's Cedar Revolution, Kuwait giving women the vote. Islamic revival is in the wind. Or is it? While looking for youth culture as she knows it, Allegra soon discovers that it is the massive video industry of airbrushed, heavily produced, scantily clad singers who hold the affections of young Arabs-the Muhajababes. And there's a contradiction: many of the fans of these semi-naked popstrels are also very devout.Is this trendy Islam, or just another form of religious conservatism? The answer to this question may lie closer to home than Allegra thought.

Author : Mark LeVine
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520389397

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Heavy Metal Islam by Mark LeVine Pdf

This updated reissue of Mark LeVine’s acclaimed, revolutionary book on sub- and countercultural music in the Middle East brings this groundbreaking portrait of the region’s youth cultures to a new generation. Featuring a new preface by the author in conversation with the band The Kominas about the problematic connections between extreme music and Islam. An eighteen-year-old Moroccan who loves Black Sabbath. A twenty-two-year-old rapper from the Gaza Strip. A young Lebanese singer who quotes Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song.” Heavy metal, punk, hip-hop, and reggae are each the music of protest, and are considered immoral by many in the Muslim world. As the young people and subcultures featured in Mark LeVine’s Heavy Metal Islam so presciently predicted, this music turned out to be the soundtrack of countercultures, uprisings, and even revolutions from Morocco to Pakistan. In Heavy Metal Islam, originally published in 2008, Mark LeVine explores the influence of Western music on the Middle East and North Africa through interviews with musicians and fans, introducing us to young people struggling to reconcile their religion with a passion for music and a thirst for change. The result is a revealing tour de force of contemporary cultures across the Muslim majority world through the region’s evolving music scenes that only a musician, scholar, and activist with LeVine’s unique breadth of experience could narrate. A New York Times Editor’s Pick when it was first published, Heavy Metal Islam is a surprising, wildly entertaining foray into a historically authoritarian region where music reveals itself to be a true democratizing force—and a groundbreaking work of scholarship that pioneered new forms of research in the region.

Author : Sahar Amer
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780748696840

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What is Veiling? by Sahar Amer Pdf

In an environment of increasing conservatism, in a world where a woman's right to wear the headscarf has become a touchstone for issues of all sorts, and at a time when racial and religious profiling has become commonplace, it is our political and social

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Antisemitism
ISBN : IND:30000115873568

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Australia's Israel Question by Anonim Pdf

Author : Geoff Harkness
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479854820

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Changing Qatar by Geoff Harkness Pdf

A cultural study of modern Qatar and how it navigates change and tradition Qatar, an ambitious country in the Arabian Gulf, grabbed headlines as the first Middle Eastern nation selected to host the FIFA World Cup. As the wealthiest country in the world—and one of the fastest-growing—it is known for its capital, Doha, which boasts a striking, futuristic skyline. In Changing Qatar, Geoff Harkness takes us beyond the headlines, providing a fresh perspective on modern-day life in the increasingly visible Gulf. Drawing on three years of immersive fieldwork and more than a hundred interviews, he describes a country in transition, one struggling to negotiate the fluid boundaries of culture, tradition, and modernity. Harkness shows how Qataris reaffirm—and challenge—traditions in many areas of everyday life, from dating and marriage, to clothing and humor, to gender and sports. A cultural study of citizenship in modern Qatar, this book offers an illuminating portrait that cannot be found elsewhere.

Author : Chris Patten
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141021447

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Not Quite the Diplomat by Chris Patten Pdf

Describes what has been happening in Britain, Europe and the world since 1997. This book explores the questions: will the British still be trying to work out who we are and what we want to be as the world moves on? Does the Western alliance still have the time and the will to shape the world before the rise of India and China? And more.

Author : Munira Mirza,Abi Senthilkumaran,Ja'far Zein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Islam and state
ISBN : 190609702X

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Living Apart Together by Munira Mirza,Abi Senthilkumaran,Ja'far Zein Pdf

This report explores the attitudes of Muslims in Britain today and the reasons why there has been a significant rise in Islamic fundamentalism amongst the younger generation.

Author : Nik Douglas,Penny Slinger
Publisher : Destiny Books
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999-12-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0892818050

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Sexual Secrets: Twentieth Anniversary Edition by Nik Douglas,Penny Slinger Pdf

• The #1 guide to sex and mysticism, redesigned in full color for the new millennium. • More than 600 illustrations of the erotic sentiment, 199 in full color. • More than 1 million copies sold with translations in 19 languages. • Combines the wisdom of the great Eastern sages with images from the West to present a celebration of creative sexuality. Sexual Secrets is the definitive guide to sex and mysticism, revealing the wisdom of the sages of India, Nepal, Tibet, China, and Japan whose teachings on sexuality unveil how physical love can be the pathway to spiritual liberation. Containing more than 600 illustrations--the most comprehensive collection of images expressing the erotic sentiment--and with more than one million copies sold in more than 19 languages, Sexual Secrets unlocks for everyone the experience of ecstasy once sealed in the ancient texts and art of the East. In celebration of its 20th year in print, Sexual Secrets has been completely revised and redesigned and includes 199 color illustrations to complement Penny Slinger's unsurpassed black-and-white illustrations, which evoke all the major cultures of the East. Working from contemporary models and from ancient pieces originally commissioned by kings and emperors, Slinger blends images of the West with the sentiments of the East to further enhance the experience of the text and to help in the transmission of the secrets--a celebration of creative sexuality.

Author : Brian Belton,Sadek Hamid
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789460916366

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Youth Work and Islam by Brian Belton,Sadek Hamid Pdf

Youth Work and Islam provides an eclectic focus, reflecting it duel inspirations of its title. It considers how youth work can be informed by Islam but at the same time looks at how practice can be pertinent to young Muslims, their community and relationship with wider society. In this book Sadek Hamid and Brian Belton bring together a range of thinkers and practitioners who exemplify and analyse this situation. This not only produces much more than a straightforward view of informed practice, it also presents a broad and humane understanding of the character and possibilities of youth work over a broad perspective. Centrally, while the work demonstrates how Islam and Muslims have contributed to the development of youth work, it also puts forward ideas and standpoints that demonstrate how Islam can continue to inform practice, add to its humanitarian ethos and even make our work with young people in general more effective. As such, Youth Work and Islam is an essential part of any youth worker’s reading, working within and beyond Muslim contexts. It is also a useful and readable text for social workers, teachers, police officers, clerics, medical professional and anyone wanting a more informed understanding of how faith perspectives can inform and refresh attitudes, approaches and enhance work with individuals, groups and communities.

Author : Maruta Herding
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839425114

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Inventing the Muslim Cool by Maruta Herding Pdf

In the current environment of a growing Muslim presence in Europe, young Muslims have started to develop a subculture of their own. The manifestations reach from religious rap and street wear with Islamic slogans to morally »impeccable« comedy. This form of religiously permissible fun and of youth-compatible worship is actively engaged in shaping the future of Islam in Europe and of Muslim/non-Muslims relations. Based on a vast collection of youth cultural artefacts, participant observations and in-depth interviews in France, Britain and Germany, this book provides a vivid description of Islamic youth culture and explores the reasons why young people develop such a culture.

Author : Sharif Gemie
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783165414

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Women's Writing and Muslim Societies by Sharif Gemie Pdf

Women’s Writing and Muslim Societies looks at the rise in works concerning Muslim societies by both western and Muslim women – from pioneering female travellers like Freya Stark and Edith Wharton in the early twentieth century, whose accounts of the Orient were usually playful and humorous, to the present day and such works as Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran and Betty Mahmoody’s Not Without My Daughter, which present a radically different view of Muslim Societies marked by fear, hostility and even disgust. The author, Sharif Gemie, also considers a new range of female Muslim writers whose works suggest a variety of other perspectives that speak of difficult journeys, the problems of integration, identity crises and the changing nature of Muslim cultures; in the process, this volume examines varied journeys across cultural, political and religious borders, discussing the problems faced by female travellers, the problems of trans-cultural romances and the difficulties of constructing dialogue between enemy camps.

Author : Karin van Nieuwkerk
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292742598

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Muslim Rap, Halal Soaps, and Revolutionary Theater by Karin van Nieuwkerk Pdf

From "green" pop and "clean" cinema to halal songs, Islamic soaps, Muslim rap, Islamist fantasy serials, and Suficized music, the performing arts have become popular and potent avenues for Islamic piety movements, politically engaged Islamists, Islamic states, and moderate believers to propagate their religio-ethical beliefs. Muslim Rap, Halal Soaps, and Revolutionary Theater is the first book that explores this vital intersection between artistic production and Islamic discourse in the Muslim world. The contributors to this volume investigate the historical and structural conditions that impede or facilitate the emergence of a "post-Islamist" cultural sphere. They discuss the development of religious sensibilities among audiences, which increasingly include the well-to-do and the educated young, as well as the emergence of a local and global religious market. At the heart of these essays is an examination of the intersection between cultural politics, performing art, and religion, addressing such questions as where, how, and why pop culture and performing arts have been turned into a religious mission, and whether it is possible to develop a new Islamic aesthetic that is balanced with religious sensibilities. As we read about young Muslims and their quest for a "cool Islam" in music, their struggle to quell their stigmatized status, or the collision of morals and the marketplace in the arts, a vivid, varied new perspective on Muslim culture emerges.

Author : Robin Wright
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439103173

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Rock the Casbah by Robin Wright Pdf

"With a new epilogue, The Morning After"--Cover.

Author : Robert Hefner,John Hutchinson,Sara Mels,Christiane Timmerman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781136681004

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Religions in Movement by Robert Hefner,John Hutchinson,Sara Mels,Christiane Timmerman Pdf

There has long been a debate about implications of globalization for the survival of the world of sovereign nation-states, and the role of nationalism as both an agent of and a response to globalization. In contrast, until recently there has been much less debate about the fate of religion. ‘Globalization’ has been viewed as part of the rationalization process, which has already relegated religion to the dustbin of history, just as it threatens the nation, as the world moves toward a cosmopolitan ethics and politics. The chapters in this book, however, make the case for the salience and resilience of religion, often in conjunction with nationalism, in the contemporary world in several ways. This book highlights the diverse ways in which religions first and foremost make use of the traditional power and communication channels available to them, like strategies of conversion, the preservation of traditional value systems, and the intertwining of religious and political power. Nevertheless, challenged by a more culturally and religiously diversified societies and by the growth of new religious sects, contemporary religions are also forced to let go of these well known strategies of preservation and formulate new ways of establishing their position in local contexts. This collection of essays by established and emerging scholars brings together theory-driven and empirically-based research and case-studies about the global and bottom-up strategies of religions and religious traditions in Europe and beyond to rethink their positions in their local communities and in the world.

Author : Naomi Sakr,Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen,Donatella Della Ratta
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857710468

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Arab Media Moguls by Naomi Sakr,Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen,Donatella Della Ratta Pdf

Transformations in the Arab media landscape are a key element in regional dynamics of political change. Where do private owners of Arab media outlets stand on the scene? What part, if any, have they played in weakening dictatorships, countering sectarianism and political polarisation, and reforming business practices in the Arab world? Arab Media Moguls charts the fortunes of some leading media investors and entrepreneurs from Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia to examine their motives, management styles, financial performance and links to political power. The resulting profiles offer intriguing insights into the place of family, education, religion and media regulation in regional power structures. Globally, the rise of small digital media, increased competition law and the precedence of more digitally-savvy younger generations have fuelled doubts as to whether the archetypal 'media mogul' is a phenomenon with a future. How do such factors affect power plays in Arab media? Responding critically to existing Western scholarship and commentary on magnates in US and European media, this book explores how far existing assumptions and perceptions about powerful media owners' eccentricity, innovation and risk-taking apply in the Arab context and offers a range of alternative approaches to understanding the central position of certain individuals in the fast-changing Arab media business.