This article explores the emergent public sphere in Egypt in the early 1990s by analysing the
debates about the 'repentant'artists. Many artists, mostly women but also a few men, stepped …

What does it mean to be a modern Muslim today? In contemporary discourse Islam and
modernity are often presented as each other's opposites in media and popular culture …

In recent years, young pious Muslims in France have become increasingly active as arts
practitioners, notably in the domain of music and performing arts. This engagement is often …

Scholars of Islam in Turkish society have written penetrating analyses on the reciprocal
influences and complementary relationships, as well as rivalries between, Alevi Islam, Sunni …

One area where Muslim genius has been recognised worldwide is that of art. Muslim artists
adapted their creativity to evoke their inner beliefs in a series of abstract forms, producing …

This paper seeks to examine the “unsettled problem” of entertainment in the discussion of
Muslim media. The status and legality of music, song, dancing, theatre, films and other …

This article attempts to delineate a cultural theory of political ideology and mass media in the
Muslim world. By cultural theory is meant that body of concepts, propositions, principles and …

This article engages in a critical discussion of the ways in which public visibility of the Islamic
lifestyle is governed through the practices within visual culture in Turkey. It is possible to …

With Islam constantly in the headlines, especially since 9/11, several major new or
refurbished galleries, exhibitions and museums of Islamic art and culture have been opened …

The Islamic Republic of Iran has entered its fourth decade, and the values and legacy of the
Revolution it was founded upon continue to have profound and contradictory consequences …