Browsing Archive: August, 2009
Posted by Nabil Echchaibi on Monday, August 31, 2009,
A British media production company has recently launched an online comedy series called, Living with the Infidels. This is how the producers describe it: "The series centres around a bumbling,
Bradford-based terror cell. Initially set on a path to martyrdom, Yorkshire's jihadi warriors discover the West isn't as
bad as it seems. Tempted by the likes of Man U, cable TV and ample Abi
upstairs, what's a man to do? Will they find Paradise
in the arms of seventy-two virgins, or is Shangri-La [utop... Continue reading ...
Posted by Nabil Echchaibi on Wednesday, August 26, 2009,
So many are urging the
so-called liberal media to pay attention to the Ohio Muslim teenager who fled
to Florida for fear her Pakistani-born parents might harm her for converting to
Christianity. Yes, cover it, but be fair in your loud outbursts for equitable
cove...
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Posted by Nabil Echchaibi on Wednesday, August 26, 2009,
British scholar and journalist Kenan Malik, author of the interesting book,
From Fatwa to Jihad: The Rushdie Affair and Its Legacy, has been exploring how perceptions of Islam are
shaped by the media in an excellent series on BBC Radio 4. You can listen to
Malik’s series, Islam, Mullahs and the Media here.
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Posted by Nabil Echchaibi on Wednesday, August 19, 2009,
An impressive industry seems to have formed around the topic of Islam in the West. Write any incendiary propaganda and you're almost guaranteed publication. Christopher Caldwell in his recent book Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West (positively reviewed here in The New York times By Fouad Ajami and critiqued here by Eboo Patel), is hell-bent on the idea that Islam has always been and will always be the archenemy of Europe, and by extension the West. Brush... Continue reading ...
Posted by Nabil Echchaibi on Saturday, August 8, 2009,
A few weeks ago, the Ministry of Culture in Egypt awarded the state's highest prize in the social sciences to Sayed al-Qimni, a controversial historian and sociologist who has received death threats for what many believe is heresy in his writing and for strong denunciation of what he calls the intellectual bankruptcy of Islamic extremists. That decision has opened wide gates of fire as some Egyptians and other Arab Muslims on satellite television scurried for places to call for the withdrawal... Continue reading ...
Posted by Nabil Echchaibi on Thursday, August 6, 2009,
"Who speaks for Islam?" has become the ultimate question to ask in the post 9/11 world. Some ask it without really looking for fresh critical voices or invite them but give them 3 or 4 minutes in between commercial breaks to explain the crisis of religious authority in Islam. Others, like here on Link TV, genuinely seek to understand how that authority is legitimated today in the Muslim world. Ray Suarez, one of the smartest journalists in this country, invited a number of people you don't al... Continue reading ...
I was born and raised in Morocco. My research focuses on the intersections between Islam, Arab popular culture and the media. I'm currently an assistant professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Colorado-Boulder.
