The Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo is delighted to send out a call for papers for a three-day conference on "Islam, Citizenship and the New Media in Pre- and Post-Revolutionary Egypt", to be held in Cairo on 18-20 December 2011.

Within the framework of the research programme ‘Strengthening knowledge of and dialogue with the Muslim world’, in short Islam Research Programme (IRP), funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the NVIC project originally took Islamic preaching in the new media in Egypt as its subject, with an initial focus on the various communication strategies developed by competing Islamic actors. In the course of this (still ongoing) research, new perspectives arising from our findings, as well as changes in focus brought about by the 25th January revolution, broadened our approach to the central question of Islamic discourse. Its relation to issues of citizenship - understood broadly as a sense of identity, as a sense of belonging to a community, and as a capacity, that of producer-consumer of culture - in present-day Egypt has become more topical, and we invite you to explore this together.

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Islam, Citizenship and New Media in Pre- and Post-Revolutionary Egypt | Digital Islam

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