The Revolution Within: Islamic Media and the Struggle for a New Egypt
A Crown Seminar with Yasmin Moll, in conversation with Amahl Bishara
Wednesday, March 25
11 AM-12:15 PM
Online (Register for virtual attendance)
What did Islamic television have to do with Egypt’s 2011 revolution? In this Crown Seminar, Yasmin Moll draws on long-term fieldwork at the Cairo branch of the world’s first Islamic television channel to show how debates over Islamic media became sites of theological and political struggle. These disputes over religious broadcasting intersected with broader contests over the shape of a “new Egypt,” reshaping religious life and revolutionary imagination for millions of ordinary people. In conversation with Amahl Bishara, Moll explores what the internal fractures of Islamic television and Egypt’s Islamic revival reveal about religion, media, and power beyond familiar stories of Islamism versus secularism.
Yasmin Moll is an assistant professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan.
Amahl Bishara is professor of Anthropology and of Studies in Race, Colonialism and Diaspora at Tufts University.