Monthly Archive: October 2012

Material Religion – Popularizing Islam: Muslims and Materiality 1

Material Religion – Popularizing Islam: Muslims and Materiality

A short commentary of mine was published in the last issue of Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief: Styles of Salafi Activism: Escaping the Divide. This issue also contains a special issue: Popularizing Islam: Muslims and Materiality edited by prof. Annelies Moors who also invited me to write the comment.

Tawakkol Karman, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (2011) 1

Tawakkol Karman, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (2011)

This week is the Nobel Peace Price 2012 will be awarded. France24 spoke with last year’s laureate: Tawakkol Karman from Yemen during the first edition of the World Forum for Democracy in Strasbourg. The young icon of the Yemeni uprising criticises the world’s weak response to the Syrian crisis and says she dreams of the day Bashar al-Assad will be brought before the ICC. She also explains why Yemen has become a better place since Ali Abdullah Saleh agreed to relinquish power.

In actie: 'Humanitair drama tentenkamp Nieuw-West' 0

In actie: 'Humanitair drama tentenkamp Nieuw-West'

Islamitische organisaties in Amsterdam Nieuw-West zetten zich in voor betere humanitaire omstandigheden in het tentenkamp in de wijk waar enkele tientallen uitgeprocedeerde asielzoekers bivakkeren onder schrijnende omstandigheden. De islamitische organisaties hopen de asielzoekers een meer menswaardig verblijf te kunnen geven.

Symposium & Inaugural Lecture: Materiality, Mediation and the Study of Religion 0

Symposium & Inaugural Lecture: Materiality, Mediation and the Study of Religion

On 19 October 2012 Prof. Birgit Meyer (professor of Religious Studies) will be giving her inaugural lecture on ‘Mediation and the Genesis of Presence. Towards a Material Approach of Religion.’ This will be the concluding contribution to a conference on ‘Materiality, Mediation, and the Study of Religion’, held on 18-19 October in Utrecht.