Being Young and Muslim: New Cultural Politics in the Global South and North (Religion and Global Politics)

"This is an excellent collection of essays on youth in a number of Muslim majority (and minority) societies in the context of globalization and modernity. A particular strength of this volume is its ability to highlight the multiple and contested roles of religion and personal faith in the fashioning of contemporary youthful Muslim identities. Such insights often challenge secular Western master narratives of modernity and suggest credible reconceptualizations of what it means to be young and modern in a broad swath of the world today."-- Asma Afsaruddin, Professor of Islamic Studies, Indiana UniversityIn recent years, there has been a proliferation of interest in youth issues and Muslim youth in particular. Young Muslims have been thrust into the global spotlight in relation to questions about security and extremism, work and migration, and rights and citizenship. This book interrogates the cultures and politics of Muslim youth in the global South and North to understand their trajectories, conditions, and choices. Drawing on wide-ranging research from Indonesia to Iran and Germany to the U.S., it shows that while the majority of young Muslims share many common social, political, and economic challenges, they exhibit remarkably diverse responses to them. Far from being "exceptional," young Muslims often have as much in common with their non-Muslim global generational counterparts as they share among themselves. As they migrate, forge networks, innovate in the arts, master the tools of new media, and assert themselves in the public sphere, Muslim youth have emerged as important cultural and political actors on a world stage.

History

Herrera, Linda

Bayat, Asef

World

Oxford University Press

Product Description 
Localities, countries, and regions develop through complex interactions with others. This striking volume highlights global interconnectedness seen through the prism of the Middle East, both “global-in” and “global-out.” It delves into the region’s scientific, artistic, economic, political, religious, and intellectual formations and traces how they have taken shape through a dynamic set of encounters and exchanges.\nWritten in short and accessible essays by prominent experts on the region, 
Global Middle East covers topics including God, Rumi, food, film, fashion, music, sports, science, and the flow of people, goods, and ideas. The text explores social and political movements from human rights, Salafism, and cosmopolitanism to radicalism and revolutions. Using the insights of global studies, students will glean new perspectives about the region. 
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&#34;This volume challenges the prevalent idea in Western media and policy circles that people, societies, and politics in the Middle East can merely be explained by reference to religion and static interpretations of culture.&#34;&;Nadje Al-Ali, Professor of Anthropology and Middle East Studies, Brown University\n&#34;This excellent book examines where the Middle East stands today in relation to its past and in relation to other regions of the world. The contributors are among the most renowned scholars of the Middle East, and they have all stepped up to the challenge of making stellar contributions.&#34;&;Mehran Kamrava,&#160;Georgetown University Qatar 
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 From the Back Cover 
"This volume challenges the prevalent idea in Western media and policy circles that people, societies, and politics in the Middle East can merely be explained by reference to religion and static interpretations of culture."—Nadje Al-Ali, Professor of Anthropology and Middle East Studies, Brown University\n"This excellent book examines where the Middle East stands today in relation to its past and in relation to other regions of the world. The contributors are among the most renowned scholars of the Middle East, and they have all stepped up to the challenge of making stellar contributions."—Mehran Kamrava, Georgetown University Qatar\nAbout the Author 
Asef Bayat is Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies and Professor of Sociology and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of 
Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East and 
Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring.\nLinda Herrera is Professor in the Department of Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership in the Global Studies in Education program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is author of 
Revolution in the Age of Social Media: The Egyptian Popular Insurrection and the Internet and coeditor of 
Wired Citizenship and 
Cultures of Arab Schooling.

Global Middle East: Into the Twenty-First Century (The Global Square) (Volume 3)

Reference

University of California Press

Educating Egypt: Civic Values and Ideological Struggles

The everyday practices, policy ideas, and ideological and political battles that have shaped Egyptian education, from the era of nation-building in the twentieth century to the age of digital disruption in the twenty-first\nFrom the 1952 revolution onward, a main purpose of formal education in Egypt was to socialize children and youth into adopting certain attitudes and behaviors conducive to the regimes in power. Control by the state over education was never entirely hegemonic. Egyptian education came increasingly under pressure due to a combination of the growing privatization of the education sector, the growth of political Islam, and rapidly changing digital technologies.\nEducating Egypt traces the everyday practices, policy ideas, and ideological and political and economic contests over education from the era of nation-building in the twentieth century to the age of global change and digital disruption in the twenty-first. Its overarching theme is that schooling and education, broadly defined, have consistently mirrored larger debates about what constitutes the model citizen and the educated person. Drawing on three decades of ethnographic research inside Egyptian schools and among Egyptian youth, Linda Herrera asks what happens when education actors harbor fundamentally different ideas about the purpose, provision, and meaning of education. Her research shows that, far from serving as a unifying social force, education is in reality an ongoing battleground of interests, ideas, and visions of the good society.

Americas

The American University in Cairo Press

Egypt's January 25 revolution was triggered by a Facebook page and played out both in virtual spaces and the streets. Social media serves as a space of liberation, but it also functions as an arena where competing forces vie over the minds of the young as they battle over ideas as important as the nature of freedom and the place of the rising generation in the political order. This book provides piercing insights into the ongoing struggles between people and power in the digital age.

Revolution in the Age of Social Media: The Egyptian Popular Insurrection and the Internet

Middle East

Verso

Egypt's January 25 revolution was triggered by a Facebook page and played out both in virtual spaces and the streets. Social media serves as a space of liberation, but it also functions as an arena where competing forces vie over the minds of the young as they battle over ideas as important as the nature of freedom and the place of the rising generation in the political order. This book provides piercing insights into the ongoing struggles between people and power in the digital age.

Military

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Being Young and Muslim: New Cultural Politics in the Global South and North (Religion and Global Politics)

Global Middle East: Into the Twenty-First Century (The Global Square) (Volume 3)

Educating Egypt: Civic Values and Ideological Struggles

Educating Egypt: Civic Values and Ideological Struggles

Revolution in the Age of Social Media: The Egyptian Popular Insurrection and the Internet

Revolution in the Age of Social Media: The Egyptian Popular Insurrection and the Internet