Titlebook: Artistic (Self)-Representations of Islam and Muslims; Perspectives Across Ramona Mielusel Book 2021 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The

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Islam and Far-Right Politics in Post-contemporary Francophone Speculative Fiction: An Ethical Call two novels are built, this chapter also answers the question whether, as a literary genre, these examples perform an ethical function of calling society to resist the evils of extremist political and religious factions or they slide into the stereotyped glorification of Eastern culture’s exotic attri

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Imams and Audience in Kaouther Ben Hania’s Niche Filmworkfiction. Across her filmwork, she has probed power and authority in society as well as truth and fiction in film. In this chapter, I examine how Ben Hania couples the religious figure of the imam with an intradiegetic audience in fiction shorts set in Tunisia (., . and a feature documentary set in F

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Representations of Radical Islam in Merzak Allouache’s Most Recent Films (2009), . (2013), . (2016), and . (2018). These films serve as a reminder that the specter of radical Islam and its terrorist violence have not completely disappeared in the Algerian landscape. They have been dormant for a few years but ready to strike again at any moment and in different forms. Ea

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De-westernizing the Gaze on Islam and the Veil in French and Franco-Algerian Filmsna Bachir-Chouikh, 2002, and ., Mounia Meddour, 2019), which represent, in an artistic manner, the impact of Islamic fundamentalism and of terrorist acts on the French and Algerian societies. Because the religious and sociopolitical contexts change with time and the national histories of cinema enge

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Eclipsing the Sun in Amira-Géhanne Khalfallah’s , La Lune: Re-Appropriating Islamic Power Dynamics T city of Jijel (formerly Gigérie). In recounting this event in a contemporary novel, Khalfallah represents it from a Maghrebi perspective that revalorizes local heritage through self-representation. It enables her to re-establish a positive representation of Islam in North Africa, counteracting perv

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In Praise of the Transgressive Muslim Body: Portraits of Moroccan female singer-dancers often associated in the Moroccan imaginary with partying and debauchery, though this was not always so. This essay investigates how and why these transgressive figures are rehabilitated in their recent works.