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After the events of 9/11, media representations of Muslims in the West—never known for their accuracy—becameeven more stereotypically negative. Few of us realize, however, the profusion of similar sentiments that existedwithin Arab Muslim media outlets ten or even fifteen years earlier. Lila Abu- Lughod here examines these images ofreligious extremism in popular Arab media, focusing most closely... Read more
Local Contexts of Islamism in Popular Media, Good and Bad Islam, Muslims and Copts, Restoring the Honor of Upper Egypt, Religion in a National Public Sphere.
Biography
Lila Abu-Lughod
