Local Contexts of Islamism in Popular Media

Author(s):
Abu-Lughod, L.
Published
2005
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor

Abstract

Professor Lila Abu-Lughod delivered the ISIM Annual Lecture on 17 December 2004 at the Spiegelzaal, Utrecht University. She analyzed media portrayals of Islamism and religious extremism in popular Egyptian television dramatic serials and suggested that new media representations of Islamists, and the debates they sparked nationally, have contributed to reconfigurations of current notions of “religion” and “nation.” Below is an abridged version of her lecture.

Islamism
Date issued
2005
Language
English
Publisher
ISIM, Leiden
Is part of
ISIM Review (2005), Vol. 15, no. 1, p. 30-31
hdl
1887/16976