Publications
Publication details [#55545]
Allagui, Ilhem and Abeer Najjar. 2011. Framing Political Islam in Popular Egyptian Cinema. Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 4 (2) : 203–224. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Brill
Annotation
This paper explores how Arab popular culture, and especially Egyptian films, frame active Islamist groups, including al-Qa'eda, thus helping shape Arab audiences' viewpoints of political Islam. Islamist groups appear to be often represented as the 'other'.