Islam

Cyber-Mix 001: Beirut Transnational

By Thomas Burkhalter on March 12, 2012

By Thomas Burkhalter on 12 March 2012 in VIDEO

A new electro/rap album from Beirut inspired me to continue clicking through the World Wide Web. Within transnational Lebanese networks I found great, crazy, funny, strange and sometimes also worrying videos, tracks, as well as a book.

Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Ashekman, Beirut, Busta Rhymes, Cham3oun, Cyber-Mix, Dossier Arab World, El Rass, I-Voice, Ice Cube, Islam, KVM, Lazzy Lung, Lebanon, Manifest One, Mashrou’ Leila, Mazen el Sayed, Michelle & Noel Keserwany, Munma, Oky Doky, Ramcess L'Hamourabi, Rap, Safar Barlik, Sandmoon, Scrambled Eggs, Talib Kweli, Tania Saleh, The Incompetents, World Music 2.0, Zeid and the Wings, Zeid Hamdan | Leave a response

The Value of Listening

By Thomas Burkhalter on April 11, 2011

By Thomas Burkhalter on 11 April 2011 in AUDIO

Charles Hirschkind, author of the book “The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics”, talks about Cassette Sermons, YouTube-Clips and the Value of Listening in Egypt.

Posted in AUDIO | Tagged Abdul Basit Abd us-Samad, Arab World, Charles Hirschkind, Dossier Arab World, Egypt, Global Prayers, Imad Rami, Islam, Seth Ayyaz, Soundscape | Leave a response

Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam

By Wendy Hsu on December 19, 2010

By Wendy Hsu on 19 December 2010 in VIDEO

Thursday 13.1.2011. While The Kominas try to start a punk scene in Lahore, the white-convert writer Michael Muhammad Knight discusses his imagination of a punk-inspired radical Islam. A great documentary film.

Posted in VIDEO | Tagged 2. Norient Musikfilm Festival, Irony, Islam, Lahore, Michael Muhammad Knight, Pakistan, Punk, religion, satire, Taqwacore, The Kominas, USA | 4 Responses

Shotguns and Munaqqabes along the Arabian Sea

By Norient on June 25, 2009

By Mark LeVine on 25 June 2009 in STORIES

Pakistan’s corrupt and violent rulers did produce one good thing, albeit inadvertently: Pakistani rock. Mark Levine offers a chapter of his book «Heavy Metal Islam» to norient.

Posted in STORIES | Tagged Asia, Censorship, Islam, Islamabad, Junoon, Lahore, Mark Levine, Metal, Pakistan, Rock Music, Sufism | Leave a response