Marjane Satrapi
Angelique Chrisafis, The Guardian, ‘The little girl in Persepolis has grown up’: Marjane Satrapi on life after her hit graphic novel – and her radical new work. “As a...
Reading List: Making Islam Work
I’ll be catching up with this book soon: it looks really interesting, and it is Open Access. Thijl Sunier, (2023). Making Islam Work. Leiden: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004684928
Heştek İslam
UWTSD Press Release, ‘”Hashtag Islam”, llyfr clodwiw yr ysgolhaig amlwg, yr Athro Gary R. Bunt wedi’i gyfieithu i’r Tyrceg fel “#Heştek İslam”‘ “Mae gwaith arloesol yr Athro Gary R....
‘How They Broke Britain‘
The new James O’Brien book ‘How They Broke Britain’ has an important chapter on #Islamophobia and the media, which I’d advise students working in this zone to refer to....
Leiden
Digitisation of libraries is extremely important. I look forward to a deep dive into Leiden’s online content
Digital Religion
New and noted: Campbell, Heidi A., and Pauline Hope Cheong (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Digital Religion (2022; online edn, Oxford Academic, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197549803.001.0001 I look forward to reading this (I don’t have access...
Uighur Bookshop & eBooks
Frankie Vetch, Coda, In Istanbul, the last Uyghur bookshops struggle to survive, 29 March 2023 “One Uyghur software developer, Memeteli Niyaz, has built a website that has around 3,000...
Yasmin El-Rifae
Ariana Bennett, CSM, Protecting female protesters during Egypt’s Arab Spring revolution, 29 March 2023 “Activist Yasmin El-Rifae helped rescue women from sexual assault during Arab Spring protests in Egypt....