<div dir="ltr">Dear Colleagues,<div>I am so pleased to announce that there will be a CaMP reading group with Yasmin Moll as the featured author in two weeks. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Yasmin
Moll has asked us to read chapter 4, and also offers the preface (and
endnotes for anyone curious) for context. Please read as much as you
can, but do feel free to join us even if you haven't managed to read
everything.<br></div><div><br></div><div>The readings can be found here:</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 4:<br></div><div><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DjwmWkiyUj7sR4dWUgUEH_EIOKy887Fy/view?usp=sharing">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DjwmWkiyUj7sR4dWUgUEH_EIOKy887Fy/view?usp=sharing</a></div><div><br></div><div>Preface:</div><div><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1op6Fo1yx2kl2FBiM-Ur34bhcldLFB-G6/view?usp=drive_link">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1op6Fo1yx2kl2FBiM-Ur34bhcldLFB-G6/view?usp=drive_link</a></div><div><div><br></div><div>Endnotes: </div><div><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F8732EsSCGeOicuH40co74XFIXppCJou/view?usp=sharing">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F8732EsSCGeOicuH40co74XFIXppCJou/view?usp=sharing</a></div><div><br></div><div>The meeting will be at noon to 1 pm east coast time - Friday, April 24th and can be reached by clicking on this Zoom link:<br><br><a href="https://iu.zoom.us/j/949202698" target="_blank"> https://iu.zoom.us/j/949202698</a><br></div><br><br><div><br></div><div>Looking forward to seeing you all virtually,<br><br>Ilana</div><div><br></div><div>Press blurb:
<div class="gmail-[&_a]:not(.btn):text-digital-red gmail-hocus:[&_a]:not(.btn):text-archway-dark gmail-wysiwyg gmail-leading"><p class="gmail-max-w-[100ch] gmail-type-0 gmail-xl:text-21">The
New Preachers of Egypt—so named because of their novel preaching
styles, which incorporate everything from melodrama to music to
self-help—came to prominence on the world's first Islamic television
channel on the cusp of the Arab Spring uprisings. They promoted an
innovative and inclusive Islamic piety that millions of young
middle-class viewers found radical and compelling—but were scorned as
neoliberal by leftists, as stealth Islamists by secularists, and as too
Westernized by other Muslim preachers.</p><p class="gmail-max-w-[100ch] gmail-type-0 gmail-xl:text-21">Drawing
on long-term fieldwork with the New Preachers, their producers, and
followers in Cairo, Yasmin Moll shows how Islamic media and the social
life of theology mattered to contestations over the shape of a New
Egypt. These mass-mediated fractures within Islamic Revivalism were
happening at a time of both revolutionary possibility and authoritarian
entrenchment. The New Preachers' Islamic media inspired a "revolution
within" that transcended the country's divisions and anticipated the
ethos of creativity, solidarity, and coexistence that soon would mark
Tahrir Square, the ethical epicenter of the 2011 uprising. Vividly
written and boldly theorized, <i>The Revolution Within</i> challenges
conventional accounts of the 2011 revolution and its aftermath as a
struggle between secular and religious forces, reconsidering what makes a
practice virtuous, a public Islamic, a way of life Godly.</p></div>
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