...Nilüfer Göle This article focuses on the ways in which the European aesthetic realm becomes a battleground of intercultural and intercivilizational conflicts as well as a domain of borrowings and mixings between “native” and “Islamic” values, thereby creating a transnational public sphere. Through...

... suicide?” and “the collapse of what?” appear unmistakably straightforward. Nineteen Islamic suicide bombers turned their deaths into weapons, causing the collapse of the World Trade Center. However, taking a broader perspective, it is much less clear who committed suicide and what collapsed on September...

.... The study breaks with a tendency of US and other Western media that associate terrorism with al-Qaeda and Islamic jihad and argues that there are many branches of domestic terrorism and eruptions of societal violence, two examples of which I explore in this study. © 2012 Duke University Press 2012...

... on the transatlantic world edge where Christian and Islamic mores interact, fuse, and clash. 8. On the original music composed by Bowles that animated the aesthetic and will to purity of form in works like “Baptism of Solitude,” see the beautifully elaborated film by Owsley Brown, Night Waltz: The Music of Paul...

... around public performances of the ezan (the Islamic call to prayer). The article argues that feelings of indignation, victimhood, and revenge are crucial to Turkish politics, as their production lies at the intersection of specific memories of injury and the material foundations of contemporary...

... diagnosed. No one doubts there is Islamic terrorism. The difficulty lies in explaining its origin and significance with respect to other events in the ongoing historical process. At a minimum, an explanation would need to clarify why Islamic terrorism has arisen at this point in time. The three leading...

..., January 10, 2007 Boston Globe , A5 a misled and foul group, which has misinterpreted and manipulated the values of the revered religion . . . has adopted a takfiri path, which allowed for ... killing... This ... provided a dangerous opening to opponents [of Islam] to spread their venom and revive...

... modernist image of “Making the Desert Bloom” turned into an image of contested space and dispossessed Palestinians. The price to maintain this delusion of empire is paid by “actual bodies, actual death and despair” (p. 130). In chapter five, the authors explore political Islamism to understand...

..., 298. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996 . Bierman Irene A. 1998 . Writing Signs: The Fatimid Public Text . Los Angeles : University of California Press . Blair Sheila S. 1992 . The Monumental Inscriptions from Early Islamic Iran and Transoxiana . Leiden, Brill...

... where misogyny, homophobia, and Islamism flourish” (6). Amine demonstrates how residents of these suburbs are constructed as threatening—both in terms of violence but also values: communautarisme (tribalism) versus universalism, Islam versus secularism, primitive versus modern. The chapters move...

... McDonald's franchise in the Middle East—an infuriating reminder of the fact the Islamic world won't be calling the shots for a long time to come” ( Goldberg 2001 ). 3. “Say (O Prophet): O ye who reject faith! I worship not that which ye worship. Nor worship ye that which I worship. And I shall...

... the military abbreviation for “rest and relaxation,” converting it to words like “regret” and “regenerate.” I constructed these works by first digitally manipulating found photographs of devastation from across the former Islamic empire—Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, and elsewhere—and then recombining...

... and preemption to their own advantage. The threats to Syria, according to the regime, are many – a possible US and/or Israeli invasion and occupation, the growing influence of political Islam, and the possibility that simmering ethnic and tribal divisions could erupt into civil war, Iraq or Lebanon-style...

... Qurʾan . Beltsville, MD : Amana . Benslama Fethi . 2009 . Psychoanalysis and the Challenge of Islam . Translated by Bononno Robert . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Bourdieu Pierre . 2001 . Masculine Domination . Translated by Nice Richard . Stanford...

... gives body to that which escapes (the symbolically structured) reality” (2005: 262). In the Farfour clip the caller dutifully follows this coordination by expressing the desire to annihilate the spectral apparition of the Jew. This racist discourse, endemic to militant Islamism, is the means by which...

... of peace and conflict in the region today. For instance we could use Mouffe’s argument to interpret events such as the 7/7 bombings in London as the reactions of Islamic fundamentalists to the globalizing advance of Western, liberal democracy. From this perspective, terrorism is not simply the work...

... refer positively to Islamic traditions or Iranian nationality or could even be completely abstract, providing the artist has the right manner and behavior. However, if he or she does not fit into these narrow categories, he or she is counted as an outsider. In this case, his or her art becomes a symptom...

... July 15, 2011 . Jameson Fredri 1990 . Late Marxism: Adorno, or The Persistence of the Dialectic . London : Verso . Klass Dennis Goss Rober . 2003 . “ The Politics of Grief and Continuing Bonds with the Dead: The Cases of Maoist China and Wahhabi Islam .” Death Studies 27...

... no mention of the specificities of gender and sexuality among Islamic peoples, nor of key points of intersection between them and the metropolitan sex/gender system. Without September 11 th and the extreme US response, Binnie is able to show something of what is at stake for people who migrate, but he...

..., the Islamic Enlightenment? And how can these two strands be reintegrated in our contemporary global reality? We all are products of cross-cultural pollination. Maybe in my life it's more obvious and recent, but the very idea of culture is that it's a growing, living thing that feeds on cross-pollination...