Despite being influenced by both global and local conditions, there are noticeable phenomena characterizing the landscape of Muslim media in the Arab region – and especially Egypt – post-Arab Spring. Within the global context, there…
On January 17th and 18th 2020, The American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) held a symposium on popular culture titled Produce, Consume, Conserve, which brought together academics, practitioners, and conservators to discuss popular culture…
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There is a band from Beirut called the Wanton Bishops. They perform well, with the requisite stomping and head-bobbing you expect from “good performers.” They write coherent lyrics, mostly the blues and almost always in…
Editor’s note: Organized by M. Tahir Kilavuz, this roundtable is a companion to “Roundtable on Political Islam after the Arab Uprisings” a previous Maydan-Jadaliyya Roundtable edited by Abdullah al-Arian. It features contributions from Stacey Philbrick Yadav,…
[Ahmet Köroğlu] First off, how about we get to know you briefly? [Namık Sinan Turan] I was born in Tarabya, Istanbul in 1972. My entire life of learning happened in Istanbul. After studying Political Science and…
INTRODUCTION – Abdullah Al-Arian, Roundtable Organizer and Editor of Critical Currents in Islam page: Five years ago, we brought together the leading scholars of the study of political Islam and invited them to weigh in on…
Noha Mellor, Voice of the Muslim Brotherhood: Da’wa, Discourse, and Political Communication (London & NY: Routledge, 2017). Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Noha Mellor (NM): As a native Egyptian, I was immensely…
Dr. Peter Mandaville, Professor of International Affairs in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University served from 2015-2016 as a Senior Adviser in the Secretary of State’s Office of Religion &…
Viewed from afar, typically the West, sectarianism in the Middle East symbolizes the age-old struggle among Muslims, and within Islam, to modernize. Lingering atavistic hatreds, so this narrative goes, prevents equal recognition and treatment of…