The Music Video and Muslim

Piety: Satellite Television

and Islamic Pop Culture in

EgyptThe Music Video and

Muslim Piety: Satellite

Television and Islamic Pop

Culture in Egypt

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

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

WAMA

Opposition between

dessert / busy life of

the city

Message of

brotherly unity of

Islam through sunset

Fancy clothes, youth

image

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

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

Hossam Hajj

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.

Piety music and pop culture

in a globalization context

Opposition between

modernity and tradition??

The question of women

Challenguing an unified

version of Islam from

Western side