Projectdetails

This project focuses on new discourses and practices in Western Europe and the Middle East in which Islam and the performing arts are creatively merged. In both minority and majority contexts, these artistic experiments are considered disconcerting for reasons connected to cultural politics, identity politics as well as different ideas about the place of the religious in the cultural sphere. The project aims to explain the process through which these debates about Muslim performing art productions in Western Europe become not only questions about the creation of cultural heritage but also about integration and citizenship. The project analyses these religious art experiments and ensuing debates not as contrary to inte-gration but as manifestations of cultural citizenship.

Artikelen

• dr. C van Nieuwkerk (2008). Creating an Islamic Cultural Space. Contested notions of art, leisure and entertainment.. An Introduction. Special issue Contemporary Islam, Dynamics of Muslim Life. ?Creating an Islamic Cultural Space. Contested notions of art, leisure and entertainment? . pp. 169-176
• dr. C. van Nieuwkerk, dr. K. van Nieuwkerk (2008). 'Repentant artists' in Egypt. Debating gender, performing arts and religion. Special issue Contemporary Islam, Dynamics of Muslim Life. ?Creating an Islamic Cultural Space. Contested notions of art, leisure and entertainment?. pp. 191-210
• dr. K. van Nieuwkerk (2008). Islam en populaire cultuur. Zemzem. pp. 6-15
• dr. K. van Nieuwkerk (2008). Piety, penitence and gender: The Case of Repentant Artists in Egypt. Journal for Islamic Studies . pp. 37-66
• Dr. J.E. Alagha (2008). Ahl Al-Dhimma in Hizbullah's Islamic State. Acceptance and Tolerance. Shia Affairs Journal . pp. 23-39. ISSN No ISSN.
• Dr. J.E. Alagha (2008). The Israeli-Hizbullah 34-Day War. Causes and Consequences. Arab Studies Quarterly . pp. 1-22. ISSN 0271-3519.
• Dr. J.E. Alagha (2008). Hizbullah: An Islamic Jihadi Movement. Arab Studies Quarterly . pp. 61-70. ISSN 0271-3519.
• Dr. J.E. Alagha (2009). A book review of Nicholas Noe's Voice of Hezbollah: The Statements of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. London: Verso, 2007. Journal of Palestine Studies. pp. 94-95. ISSN 0377-919X.
• Dr. J.E. Alagha (2010). Wilayat Al-Faqih and Hizbullah's Relations with Iran. Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies. pp. 24-44

Bijdragen aan boeken

• Dr. J.E. Alagha, Prof. S. Mervin (2008). Les services sociaux de Hezbollah: Effort de guerre, ethos religieux et ressources politiques. in: Le Hezbollah: État Des Lieux. Paris: . pp. 117-140. ISBN 978-2742774203.
• Dr. J.E. Alagha, Prof. F. Nahavandi (2009). Fatah al-Islam: ennemi idéologique du Hezbollah au Liban. in: Mouvements islamistes et Politique. Paris: . pp. 163-174. ISBN 978-2-296-10762-5.