Detailed project information

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.

Articles

• 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
• Dr. J.E. Alagha (2010). Wilayat Al-Faqih and Hizbullah's Relations with Iran. Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies. pp. 24-44. ISSN 0806-198X.
• Dr. J.E. Alagha (2010). Zoekt Hezbollah haar toevlucht tot Realpolitik?. Internationale Spectator. pp. 110-114. ISSN 0020-9317.
• Dr. J.E. Alagha (2010). Wat is Democratie?. Verkiezingen in Libanon. ZemZem: Tijdschrift over het Midden-Oosten, Noord-Afrika en islam . pp. 74-82. ISSN 1574-6577 .
• Dr. J.E. Alagha (2010). Book Review of Norton's Hezbollah. A Short History, fifth reprint, 2009. Insight Turkey . pp. 256-258. ISSN  1302-177X .
• Dr. J.E. Alagha (2010). A book review of Abdul-Rahim Abu-Husayn's, Rebellion, Myth Making and Nation Building. Lebanon from an Ottoman Mountain Iltizam to a Nation State. Bibliotheca Orientalis . pp. 613-617. ISSN ISSN 0006-1913 .
• Dr. J.E. Alagha (2010). A book review of Abdallah Said's, The Jisr Family in Tripoli 1757-1980. From Religious Guidance to Political Work. Bibliotheca Orientalis . pp. 617-622. ISSN 0006-1913.
• Dr. C. van Nieuwkerk (2011). Performing piety and pious performances: the cultural power of Egyptian celebrities. TDR. pp. 

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.
• MSc Y. van Tilborgh (2008). Abram de Swaan over onze protoprofessionalisering ? een interview. in: Burger in uitvoering. Amsterdam: . pp. 94-109
• 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.
• Drs. Y. van Tilborgh (2009). Het islamdebat en de strategische emoties van moslima?'s. in: Gevoel voor Kennis. Amsterdam: . pp. 98-120. ISBN 978-90-5260-351-3.
• Dr. J.E. Alagha, S. Mervin (2010). Hizbullah's Conception of the Islamic State. in: The Shi'a Words and Iran. London: . pp. 89-114. ISBN 978-0863564062.
• Dr. J.E. Alagha (2010). A Tug of War: Hizbullah, Participation, and Contestation in the Lebanese Public Sphere. in: Publics, Politics and Participation. Columbia : . pp. 453-483. ISBN 978-0979077258.
• Dr. J.E. Alagha, Karin van Nieuwkerk (2011). Pious Entertainment: Hizbullah?s Islamic Cultural Sphere. in: Muslim Rap, Halal Soaps and Revolutionary Theater. Austin: . pp. 149-175
• Dr. C. van Nieuwkerk (2011). Artistic Developments in the Muslim Cultural Sphere: Ethics, Aesthetics and the Performing Arts?. An Introduction. in: in: ?Artistic Developments in the Muslim Cultural Sphere: Ethics, Aesthetics and the Performing Arts. Austin: . pp. 
• Dr. C. van Nieuwkerk (2011). Of Morals, Missions and the Market. New Religiosity and ?Art with a Mission? in Egypt'. in: Artistic Developments in the Muslim Cultural Sphere: Ethics, Aesthetics and the Performing Arts. : . pp. 
• dr. C. van Nieuwkerk, dr. C. van Nieuwkerk (2011). Artistic Developments in the Muslim Cultural Sphere, Ethics, Aesthetics and the Performing Arts. in: Muslim Rap, Halal Soaps, and Revolutionary Theater, Artistic Developments in the Muslim World. Austin: . pp. 1-25. ISBN 9.
• dr. C. van Nieuwkerk, dr. C. van Nieuwkerk (2011). Of Morals, Missions and the Market. New Religiosity and ?Art with a Mission? in Egypt.. in: Muslim Rap, Halal Soaps, and Revolutionary Theater, Artistic Developments in the Muslim World. Austin: . pp. 177-205. ISBN 978-0-292-72681-9.
• Dr. C. van Nieuwkerk, Dhr. K. Salhi (2012). "Debating Piety and Performing Arts in the Public Sphere: The ?caravan? of veiled actresses in Egypt". in: In "Music as debate? in Muslim societies of North Africa, South Asia, West Asia and their diasporas" ed. K. Salhi. : . pp.