Presentation about Muslim Piety in Egypt for the University of Southern Denmark

1. The Music Video and Muslim
Piety: Satellite Television
and Islamic Pop Culture in
ETghyep tMusic Video and
Muslim Piety: Satellite
Television and Islamic Pop
Culture in Egypt

2. The author
 Patricia Kubala is a graduate student in
the Department of Religious Studies at
the University of California, Santa
Barbara. She currently lives in Cairo,
where she is studying Arabic at the
Center for Arabic Study Abroad and
conducting research for her master's
thesis on the public debate in Egypt
surrounding Arabic music video clips

3. A new satellite era
 Before the “satellite
era” the music videos
had an important
sense of solemn
religiosity
 In the new channels
is possible to see
how the piety music
is also adaptting to
the pop culture

4. WAMA
 Opposition between
dessert / busy life of
the city
 Message of
brotherly unity of
Islam through sunset
 Fancy clothes, youth
image

5. Entertainment and Islam
 In the 70ies some
preachers criticized
the entertainment
industry
 A new concept of
artist who lives with a
special sense of
religiosity

6. Purposeful art
 Use the God gifts in order to
streghtened the Community of
Believers
 The ideal of Al-fann al-hadif :
chic and tasteful art with an
appropiate message of moral
respectability and
responsability
 Pious, all the while enjoying
the technological amenities
and comforts, of a modern
lifestyle

7. Hossam Hajj

8. Questions
 Piety music and Pop culture in a broader
globalization context
 Modernity and Tradition in music can be
together
 The question of the women.
 Challenguing an unified version.

9. Piety music and pop culture
in a globalization context

10. Opposition between
modernity and tradition??

11. The question of women

12. Challenguing an unified
version of Islam from
Western side