karin van nieuwkerk 178 karin van nieuwkerk ized regime in Egypt. Hirschkind (2006) in
particular has drawn attention to the pious counterpublic in Egypt.(Pious) performing arts are …

artistic developments in the muslim cultural sphere: ethics, aesthetics, and the performing
arts green pop, clean cinema, halal songs, Islamic soaps, Muslim rap and hip-hop, Islamist …

In the second section, the religiously committed artists' own views on gender, art, and
religion will be central. In the final section, I will highlight the changing discourse on art …

The public sphere in the Middle East and elsewhere is changing rapidly due to the global
availability of new technologies of mass media. As a result of the growing influence of …

PIety on CamPus on a very hot late afternoon in August 2010, fifty or so students at Cairo's
College of Fine Arts, a state school, were busily setting up tables in the school's courtyard …

joseph alagha 150 joseph alagha nization labels it. In addition to primary Arabic Internet
sources and secondary sources in English, I conducted two fieldwork visits, in the summer of …

The terms “Islamic” and 'Arab” are not ideal instruments for classifying modern or
contemporary art, for they are meta-categories that can variously encompass Muslims and …

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 …

The term" Islamic Art" is an all-embracing concept somewhat inadequate to describe the
range and diversity of work produced across countries as different as Morocco, Turkey, and …

Abstract Art plays an important role for politically engaged Muslims and promotes
moderation (wasaṭīyah). Moderation has a civilizational mission: to buttress an open …