Let Go of Our Traditions

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«What happens when we let go of our traditions? We become new ones.»

This quote is taken from the interview «Listening out of Perspective. An Interview with Wendy M.K. Shaw», published 2020 in «Van Outernational». Last accessed on April 19, 2021.

Biography

Wendy Shaw is professor of the art history of Islamic cultures at the Freie Universität Berlin. Her work focuses on the impact of coloniality on art-related institutions, modern art and pre-modern discourses of perception, with emphasis on the Ottoman Empire and regions of Islamic hegemony. She has written «Possessors and Possessed: Museums, Archaeology, and the Visualization of History in the Late Ottoman Empire» (University of California Press, 2003), «Ottoman Painting: Reflections of Western Art from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic» (IB Tauris, 2011), and «What is ‹Islamic› Art: Between Religion and Perception» (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

Published on December 10, 2020

Last updated on June 27, 2022

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Hip Hop as Counter-Culture

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by Khabeer Abdul Su'ad

«Hip hop is often seen as a counter-culture that will challenge the status quo. While this view is valid, it is also incomplete because hip hop has always had a parallel track about getting money, power, and respect.»

The quote is taken from the article «The Hip Hop President?» published 2020 in «Africa Is a Country». Last Accessed December 21, 2020.

Biography

Khabeer Abdul Su’ad is a scholar-artist-activist whose work examines the intersections of race, religion and popular culture. She is the author of «Muslim Cool: Race, Religion and Hip Hop in the United States». She has a deep commitment to public scholarship and reaches diverse audiences through her one-woman solo performance, «Sampled: Beats of Muslim Life» and in her leadership of «Sapelo Square: An Online Resource on Black Muslims in the Untied States». Follow her on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, or on her Website.

Published on December 11, 2020

Last updated on June 27, 2022

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Counter-Culture

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Für mich ging es vor allem ums Ästhetische

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by Kamilya Jubran

«Wie oft hatte ich es mit Journalist*innen zu tun, die eine klare Vorstellung davon hatten, welche Form unser Engagement, unsere Politisierung, unser Widerstand annehmen musste. Für mich ging es vor allem ums Ästhetische. Von palästinensischen Maler*innen wird stets verlangt, Männer mit erhobener Faust abzubilden. Damit wollte ich mich nicht abfinden.»

Das Zitat stammt aus dem Artikel «‹Damit wollte ich mich nicht abfinden›: Ein Porträt der Sängerin und Oud-Spielerin Kamilya Jubran», veröffentlicht 2020 in «Van Outernational». Zuletzt aufgerufen am 4 Dezember, 2020.

Biography

Kamilya Jubran grew up in Al Rameh – a palestinian village situated in Galilée, in the north of Israel. Raised by her music loving parents, she was introduced and initiated to classical arabic music, and particularly by her father Elias Jubran – a music teacher and an instrument maker. At the age of 18 Kamilya made her move to Jerusalem, where she studied at the Hebrew university, and simultaneously explored her new musical pathway by joining Sabreen group-based in East Jerusalem. With the group she recorded four albums and toured in many local as well as international towns and cities. The very rich and intensive two decades of constant work with the group urged her to deepen her music research and consequently to shape and reshape her musical identity. Follow her on Youtube, Spotify, SoundCloud, Facebook, X, or on her Website.