A documentary about Jason Perez, an American man who’s a rapper, educator, father, Muslim, husband and idealist who is trying to get away from his old life with gangs and drugs.

[ September 10, 2009; 1:45 pm to 4:45 pm. ] Roeland will defend his PhD thesis in which he investigates whether the subjectivisation-thesis is a fruitful theory to describe and explain current modes of evangelical and charismatic Christianity among Dutch Christian youngsters. Both the evangelical and charismatic movement have increased in popularity in recent years, especially among young people, and have become a visible, lively and attractive phenomenon in the Dutch religious scene. His main question addresses the extension of these modes of religiosity in terms of subjectivization among young people.

Migrantenstudies is het enige Nederlandstalige wetenschappelijke tijdschrift voor onderzoek naar migratie, etnische minderheden en de Nederlandse samenleving. Tal van onderwerpen komen aan bod zoals huisvesting, gezondheidszorg, onderwijs, arbeidsmarkt, politieke participatie, discriminatie en identiteit. Het eerste nummer van dit jaar (dat sinds kort online staat) is een thema-nummer over identificatie van migrantenjongeren.

Taqwacore is a fusion of piety and hardcore punk. The name is derived from Michael Muhammad Knight’s novel The Taqwacores that tells the story of Yusuf Ali. His house, and that of several of his companions, is a safe haven for punk parties and for Muslims. What they share is that they seem to be ‘pissed off about everything’ (parents, society, politicians, religious authorities you name it) and trying to resist homogenizing labelling (such as progressive, punk, radical, gay, Arab) of Muslims.

Natuurlijk is er veel aandacht voor de dood van Michael Jackson en zoals u inmiddels wel gewend bent zijn post over actuele dramatische zaken hier altijd laat en zelfs een beetje mosterd na de maaltijd. Eén van de discussies over MJ die voortdurend terugkomt gaat over de vraag of hij nu wel moslim is of niet.

AD.nl – Gouda – ’Ook in de jaren ’20 stenen door autoruit’
Kern van het betoog van hoogleraar Leo Lucassen over hangjongeren, is dat burgers minder accepteren van hun omgeving dan voorheen, waardoor oude problemen plotseling nieuw lijken.

ISIM Review 22, Autumn 2008 is out and available online. As usual very interesting articles which are relevant for  my research, to name but a few:

Jews and Others in Iraq / Sami Zubaida
The Sound of Islam: Southeast Asian Boy Bands / Bart Barendregt
Good Girls and Rebels / Miriam Gazzah
Universal Aspirations: The Muslim Brotherhood in Europe [...]

[ September 8, 2008; 1:30 pm to 5:00 pm. ]  

Rhythms and Rhymes of Life: Music and Identification Processes of Dutch-Moroccan Youth

8 September 2008 |1.30 pm | Academiezaal Aula, Comeniuslaan 2, Radboud University Nijmegen

Supervisors: Prof. dr. C.H.M. Versteegh, prof. dr. A.I. Tayob (University of Capetown)
Co-supervisor: dr. K. van Nieuwkerk

Rhythms and Rhymes of Life: Music and Identification Processes of Dutch-Moroccan Youth is the Ph.D study by [...]

Wetenschapsagenda – Nederlands-Marokkaanse jongeren en hun muziek – www.ru.nl

Nederlands-Marokkaanse jongeren en hun muziek
Muziek is een belangrijk middel voor jongeren om duidelijk te maken wie ze zijn en waar ze bij willen horen. Dat geldt ook voor Nederlands-Marokkaanse jongeren, een groep die centraal staat in het promotieonderzoek van Miriam Gazzah. Door hen via muziek te benaderen, [...]

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How Heavy Metal Is Working Its Way Into Islam : NPR
Talk of the Nation, July 10, 2008 · Music like heavy metal, punk, hip-hop and reggae — often voices of protest — are typically considered immoral in the Muslim world. But this music may also turn out to be the soundtrack of a revolution unfolding [...]

Islam inspires a comic-book series | Philadelphia Inquirer | 06/16/2008

By Faiza Saleh Ambah
Washington Post
KUWAIT CITY – Naif al-Mutawa was in a London taxi with his sister when she asked when he’d go back to writing children’s books. Mutawa, a Kuwaiti psychologist with two doctorates and an MBA from Columbia, said the question sparked a chain [...]

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Anthropologist Ted Swedenburg is always on the look out for interesting keffiyeh / kufiya / kaffiyeh / palestinian scarf (palestijnen sjaal) art or streetwear and last friday he found this:

Prints & The Revolution is an online shop specialized in street art and (I’m just guessing) they have found some (commercial) inspiration in that and came [...]

Toevalligerwijs in een slechte actiefilm – New Articles – de Volkskrant
Toevalligerwijs in een slechte actiefilm
Door Janny Groen en Annieke Kranenberg
De laatste keer dat Rachid zijn beste vriend sprak, maakten ze ’s avonds na elven een wandeling rond de Sloterplas in Amsterdam-West. Ze waren met z’n drieën: Rachid, Mohammed B. en een buurjongen. De drie kenden [...]

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Op 17 januari 2008 vindt het seminar ‘Ze geloven het wel’ plaats aan de Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Het is een seminar voor mensen die de thematiek jongeren en religie aan het hart gaat, en die een beroepsmatige affiniteit met jongeren hebben. Wij denken daarbij aan wetenschappers die onderzoek doen op dit vlak en [...]

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Tri-City Herald: Opinions
HANNAH ALLAM: Muslims speak out through Arab-themed T-shirts
http://www.halalapalooza.com/
http://www.rootsgear.com/
http://www.phatwafactory.com/
http://www.t-shirtat.com/
http://www.zazzle.com/
http://www.wearaloud.com/
http://www.cafepress.com/khalifaklothing
http://www.cafepress.com/muslimteez
http://casualdisobedience.com/
Published Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
– McClatchy Newspapers
CAIRO, Egypt The Christmas and Eid holidays run back-to-back this year, and it’s hard to shop for people who straddle Western and Middle Eastern cultures. While surfing the Web in hopes of finding unique gifts, I was surprised to stumble [...]

Beliefnet Presents ‘Not My Father’s Hajj’ by Shahed Amanullah — Beliefnet.com
During the modern hajj, the emphasis on commerce and the abundance of modern technology can be distracting. New malls with Western stores are beginning to surround the Masjid al-Haram (“the Sacred Mosque”), contrasting with the nearby bazaars and street markets that echo historic experiences (commerce [...]

What does it mean to be Muslim in Morocco ? | sur Jeunes Du Maroc, Portail des Jeunes
The Moroccan constitution updated in 1996 states that people who are born in Morocco are by tradition Muslims- 85% to 90% are Sunnis
(Lamchichi, 1995, p.239). It implies that Moroccan citizens are not religiously free and have no choice [...]

Middle East Report 245: Imagined Youths by Ted Swedenburg
Youth in the Middle East are burdened with authoritarian states, corruption and nepotism that circumscribe their life chances, as well as structural socio-economic crisis stemming from the failures of state-led development and the systemic inequalities of global capitalism. Not the least of their burdens, however, are the [...]

Poetic Justice is a literary device which virtue or the good is ultimately rewarded and/or vice punished and is related to Aristotle’s Poetics. According to Aristotle poetry is superior to history in that it shows what should or must happen, rather than merely what does occur. Poetic justice is also used to describe how a [...]

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Schijt aan de overheid – vrijdag 10 augustus 2007 – DePers.nl
Hiphop ’Het is wachten op Mohammed C.’
Schijt aan de overheid
Door: Myrthe Hilkens
Gepubliceerd: gisteren 22:04
Update: vandaag 11:26
Zwaaiend met bijlen en messen vecht rapper Appa zich met ‘Schijt aan de Overheid’, voor de tweede keer, binnen 24 uur naar de hoogste regionen van YouTube Nederland. ‘Zijn aanhang [...]