Mekka or MTV?
Mekka or MTV: Turkish youth rediscover Islam
Mekka or MTV: Turkish youth rediscover Islam
Posted by MdK on Wed, 05/12/2004 – 09:59
Start:
Tue, 05/18/2004 – 20:30
Location:
Tropentheater Linnaeusstraat 2 Amsterdam
Ayse Saktanber will elaborate on the islamic youth culture as a cultural and political phenomenon in Turkey. Since 1923 Turkey is a secular state in which religion and politics are separated. Lately this secularism is under pressure by the islamic youth movement that wants a more important role for islam in public life and attributes great value to an islamic lifestyle.
Ayse Saktanber shows examples of how these young people express their islamic identity in film, music and literature. Fancy headscarfs, islampop and movies that are acceptable through islamic eyes, form their answer on the secular, and in their eyes ‘westernized’ Turkish state. Books of wellknown muslimintellectuals are an important source of inspiration for them.
The lecture will be introduced by Thijl Sunier (University of Amsterdam). He will talk about the search by young Turks in the Netherlands for their own identity.
Dr. Ayse Saktanber (Middle East Technical University, Ankara) is known by the book Living Islam (2002)in which she describes why and how women play an important role in the islamic political revival and why they are an issue in the power struggle between islamist and secular powers in Turkey.
The evening is part of the series of lectures that follow the exhibition of (www.urbanislam.nl). Before this lecture a tour is given at 19.15. The lecture is organized by the Tropical Museum together with the ISIM (International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World, www.isim.nl).
The tickets are EUR 10,00 and available at Tropentheater, tel. 020 – 5688 500 (mon t/m sat 12.00 – 18.00).
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