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An anthropology of Muslims in Europe - A modest attempt by Martijn

Category: Arts & culture

Uprising – Music, Images and The Tunisia and Egypt Revolution on Youtube 2

Arts & culture / Society & Politics in the Middle East

Uprising – Music, Images and The Tunisia and Egypt Revolution on Youtube

Music, images and nowadays video have always been an important part of protest movements. These practices of making and spreading music videos can enhance the solidarity with a movement, its identity and ideas, values and goals. It makes distant sympathizers (feel) part of the movement, in this case global movement’ because they are actually participating in spreading the word (and image) and the express their own political position in public. In combination with the visual representation the musical videos on Youtube have become important platform for what has been called ’semiotic resistance’and creativity; one that has profound cultural and political significance.

Global Voices – Islam Goes Pop in Nijmegen 0

Arts & culture / Public Islam / Youth culture (as a practice)

Global Voices – Islam Goes Pop in Nijmegen

Combinaties van kunst en amusement met religiositeit zijn voor hen niet altijd evident. In vele landen in de islamitische wereld vinden er debatten plaats tussen moslimgeleerden, politici, kunstenaars en publiek over de relatie tussen kunst en islam. Het onderzoeksproject ‘Islam and the performing arts in Europe and the Middle East’, uitgevoerd door de afdeling Islam en Arabisch aan de Radboud universiteit, onderzoekt deze en andere vragen. Met de Egyptische filmmaker Ismail Elmokadem over zijn nieuwste film Pop goes Islam, de islamitische muziekgroep El Waefa uit Den Haag en met Joseph Alagha, Nina ter Laan en Karin van Nieuwkerk van Islam en Arabisch aan de Radboud universiteit.

Muslims and Anime Art 6

Arts & culture

Muslims and Anime Art

Anime is an old drawing style from Japan coming from the word ‘animation’ and manga is the comics and cartoons where this style is used. In this entry I explore Muslim anime and manga. While anime is in itself already a mix of different styles and genres it gets re-appropriated by people who give meaning to it throughout the world and by making new drawings and comics themselves with both global and local influences. It is in fact a continuing story of production, reproduction and re-appropriation by mixing styles and personal experiences under the label of anime.

Ghuraba – De Vreemdelingen 6

Arts & culture / ISIM/RU Research / Ritual and Religious Experience

Ghuraba – De Vreemdelingen

Muziek is een belangrijk, maar vaak onderbelicht, bestanddeel van iedere beweging of dit nu een traditionele sociale beweging is of een religieuze beweging. Muziek speelt een grote rol in pinksterkerken en de evangelische beweging, maar voorheen ook al in de Amerikaanse burgerrechten beweging. Muziek kan dienen ter mobilisatie van participanten en kan ook gebruik worden ter bemiddeling van een bepaalde religieuze of politieke boodschap. In islamitische kringen (onder meer salafi) speelt anasheed een grote rol. Een nasheed (mv anasheed) is een islamitisch lied, gewoonlijk a-cappella gezongen soms begeleid met percussie. Als er een anasheed-hitparade zou bestaan, zou Al-Ghuraba ongetwijfeld hoog scoren.

Punk Piety – "Challenging the orthodoxy of Punk and Islam" 4

Arts & culture / Young Muslims / Youth culture (as a practice)

Punk Piety – "Challenging the orthodoxy of Punk and Islam"

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.

Rebelle – Art, feminism and Muslim women 2

Arts & culture / Gender, Kinship & Marriage Issues

Rebelle – Art, feminism and Muslim women

From postering activists to virtual cyber art. Forty years of art
history are on display in Rebelle. According to the press statement, while the topic of art and feminism has both champions and opponents, everyone is in agreement about one thing: feminism permanently changed the artistic landscape. The exhibition includes three contributions from Middle Eastern feminist artists: Shadi Ghadirian, Gülsün Karamustafa and Parastou Forouhar.

ISIM Review available online 0

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ISIM Review available online

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...