Produce, Consume, Conserve: An Essay Roundtable on Egyptian Popular Culture
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Cairokee and its Audience: How an Egyptian Band Stays Relevant
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…
Roundtable | Future of Political Islam in the MENA under the Changing Regional Order
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,…
[Interview] Namik Sinan Turan: “Umm Kulthum is a Shared Cultural Symbol of Egypt and the Arab World”
[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…
Roundtable on Political Islam after the Arab Uprisings
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 (New Texts Out Now)
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…
“The Ambivalence of Islam in US Foreign Policy” by Peter Mandaville
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 &…
Sectarian Politics and Weak States in the Middle East: The Return of the Khawarij in Egypt
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…