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Review: Representing Islam: Hip-Hop of the September 11 Generation

20 Dec 2021

Review: Representing Islam: Hip-Hop of the September 11 Generation
Anders Ackfeldt Book Review The book Representing Islam: Hip-Hop of the September 11 Generation (2020) by Kamaludeen Mohmed Nasir explores the entangled relationship between Islam and hip-hop. The book centers around Muslim hip-hop artists affected by the war on terror and the long-term consequences of the 9/11 attacks; increased surveillance, a securitization of Islam, and an amplified islamophobia, not only in the United States but around the world. The…

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Satellitization of Arab Media: Perceptions of Changes in Gender Relations

10 May 2016

Satellitization of Arab Media: Perceptions of Changes in Gender Relations
Anne Sofie Roald Article This article explores how students living in East Amman in Jordan perceive a link between global television entertainment and social changes, particularly changes in gender relations. The study relies on a questionnaire distributed among university students in Amman in 2009 and 2010 with 946 Muslim respondents, and focus group discussions and individual interviews with 44 Muslim students living in East Amman in 2013. The theoretical…

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Violence and Visibility in Contemporary Syria: An Ethnography of the “Expanded Places”

10 May 2015

Violence and Visibility in Contemporary Syria: An Ethnography of the “Expanded Places”
Donatella Della Ratta Article This article reflects on the relationship between visibility and violence as redefined by the combined action of warfare and networked communication technologies. Drawing on the author's own ethnography conducted in Syria in 2010, and on anonymous YouTube videos, it introduces the concept of “expanded places” to look at sites that have been physically annihilated; yet, at the same time, they have been re-animated through multiple…

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Review: Turkish Metal – Music, Meaning and Morality in a Muslim Society

10 Nov 2013

Review: Turkish Metal – Music, Meaning and Morality in a Muslim Society
Johan Cato Book Review The book is divided into seven chapters that deal with a variety of topics related to heavy metal, Turkey and Islam. The topics include questions concerning gender, nationalism, media coverage and satanic panic. The book is based on a broad range of materials, which include in-depth interviews with musicians and metalheads active on the scene, interviews with journalists and documentary analysis in the form of…

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