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New Book: Islam, Marketing and Consumption: Critical Perspectives on the Intersections
This book seeks to reflect various unheard and emerging critical voices from within the Muslim world, and provide a series of critical insights on how, if and why Islam matters to marketing theory and practice. It questions the...
-mz-, 27 Jan 2016

New Book: Radicalism and Music: An Introduction to the Music Cultures of al-Qa'ida, Racist Skinheads, Christian-Affiliated Radicals, and Eco-Animal Rights Militants
The book offers a convincing argument for music’s transformational impact on the radicalization, reinforcement, and motivational techniques of violent political activists. It makes a case for the careful examination of music’s...
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Book: Cairo Pop: Youth Music in Contemporary Egypt
The book examines the dominant popular music of Egypt, shababiyya. Scorned or ignored by scholars and older Egyptians alike, shababiyya plays incessantly in Cairo, even while Egyptian youth joined in mass protests against their...
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New Issue of the Journal of Arab and Muslim Media Research
The Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research released its new issue (Vol. 8, Issue 3, 2015), edited by Noureddine Miladi from the Qatar University. The issue focuses on media representations of conflicts, portrayals of social...
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New Book: Cinema in Muslim Societies
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Behind the Screen: the Syrian Virtual Resistance
Six years have gone by since the political upheaval that swept through many Middle East and North African (MENA) countries begun. Syria was caught in the grip of this revolutionary moment, one that drove the country from a...
Billie Jeanne Brownlee, 19 Dec 2017
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Big Data in the MENA Region: The Next Path towards Socio-economic and Cultural Development
As elsewhere, big data is perceived as central to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) nations’ socio-economic and cultural development. The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region, by virtue of its advanced information...
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Transnational Religious Practices on Facebook
Access to cyberspace by Yezidi populations has given this group a platform for rebuilding their religious identity, which, in turn, has enabled them to challenge existing geographic, political and cultural constraints in Iraq. The...
Seyedehbehnaz Hosseini, 19 Dec 2017
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Middle Eastern Women’s ‘Glocal’: Journeying between the Online and Public Spheres
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Saudi Women and Socio-Digital Technologies: Reconfiguring Identities
Drawing on research conducted in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, this paper explores the specific uses of digital technologies by Saudi women. It shows how these women – whose gender identity is strongly constrained by a host of social and...
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Science and Islam Videos: Creating a Methodology to Find “All” Unique Internet Videos
This methodology article explores the process through which we sought to catalogue videos addressing natural science and Islam on the Internet comprehensively. This data was then used to select videos for inclusion in the Center...
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Youth Activism and Social Networks in Egypt
The arrival of the Internet-based technologies has made the work of professional activists much more effective and has attracted the attention of society and observers, if only because their internal and external communications...
Ahmed Tohamy, 9 Jul 2017
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