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Egypt

Muslim Media in the Post-Arab Spring: The Curious Case of Egypt

By Tarek Ghanem  //  March 18, 2020

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…

Produce Consume Conserve: A Podcast Series on Egyptian Popular Culture | Episode 1- Producing for the Public Roundtable

By Maydan Editors  //  March 12, 2020March 12, 2020

 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…

Produce, Consume, Conserve: An Essay Roundtable on Egyptian Popular Culture

By Maydan Editors  //  January 13, 2020May 1, 2020

Introduction | by N.A.Mansour Egypt’s Podcasts and Booktubes: A Literary Criticism of the Future? | by M Lynx Qualey Cairo Since 1900: Book Review and Interview with the Author | by Shaimaa S. Ashour Art…

Cairokee and its Audience: How an Egyptian Band Stays Relevant

By N.A. Mansour  //  January 9, 2020January 9, 2020

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

By M. Tahir Kilavuz  //  August 16, 2018August 27, 2018

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”

By Ahmet Koroglu  //  May 9, 2018May 9, 2018

[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

By Abdullah Al-Arian  //  May 2, 2018May 2, 2018

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)

By Noha Mellor  //  March 29, 2018March 29, 2018

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

By Maydan Editors  //  March 13, 2017March 13, 2017

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

By Jeffrey Kenney  //  October 8, 2016July 26, 2019

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…

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