Dabke on Dutch Dancefloors: Reattribution of Folk Tradition Dabke is often framed as a village dance. The current popularity of dabke performances in the Netherlands shows how migration attributes new meaning to traditional practice. Diasporic dabke swings between reinvention of identity and creative cultural exchange. Femke Groeneveld • November 21, 2019
Kunnen moslims wijn drinken? Moslims en wijn, is er een connectie? Pooyan Tamimi Arab gaat in dit blog en tijdens zijn lezing op 6 november dieper in op deze vraag. Pooyan Tamimi Arab • November 05, 2019
In het islamdebat zijn niet alleen rechtse populisten of moslimfundamentalisten het probleem In hun nieuwe bundel 'Wordt het nog wat met het islamdebat?' laten Jan Jaap de Ruiter en Gert Jan Geling verschillende mensen reflecteren op het islamdebat in Nederland Gert Jan Geling and Jan Jaap de Ruiter • October 24, 2019
A Short History of Kashmir: 1947–2019 Kashmir regularly makes international headlines but the history of the region is often unknown to many. What shaped the current situation and what is happening in Kashmir right now? Idrees Kanth • October 10, 2019
Turkish Academics for Peace Recently, ten Turkish academics who signed a petition in 2016 protesting against state violence towards the own population in South-East Turkey, have been cleared by Turkey’s Constitutional Court of charges of terrorist propaganda. What does this say about Turkey’s constitutional state? Petra de Bruijn • September 26, 2019
Speculative Fiction from the Middle East On Thursday 19 September, five speculative short videos from the Middle East will have their premiere in The Netherlands. What is speculative fiction, why are academics interested in it and what is happening in the Middle East in this respect? Judith Naeff • September 10, 2019
Silk Road Cities The exhibition Silk Road Cities features Islamic architectural monuments in major urban centres along the Silk Roads in Central Asia, documented through vintage photographs, prints and postcards. Opening on 5 September. Gabrielle van den Berg and Elena Paskaleva • August 30, 2019
Turkey beyond Partisanship In a dramatic re-run, the citizens of Istanbul recently elected the opposition’s candidate as their new mayor. “The era of partisanship will end!” was one of his slogans. A Turkey beyond authoritarianism and populism depends on ending partisan politics. Alp Yenen • June 26, 2019
The Governor's Orders: Part One What did the Arab conquests of Egypt mean for the average Egyptian villager? This story takes place a few years after 700, in the countryside of Middle Egypt. It’s based on a Coptic document that belonged to the Arab-Muslim government. Eline Scheerlinck • June 20, 2019 • 1 comment
