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Oct 2: Religion and freedom of expression. Marcel Khalife & Mahmoud Darwish, "Ana Yusuf ya Abi". (music, documentary film; Middle East, Islam)

Assignment: Please browse the following.

Music, art, religion and politics: Marcel Khalife and Mahmoud Darwish

Marcel Khalife in Freemuse, a website dedicated to freedom of musical expression.

Watch Marcel Khalife in performance (the video begins by showing the double bass; Marcel appears later, on the Arabic lute called oItalic textud)

Ana Yusuf ya Abi: the controversy

Read the Qur'anic passage in question (and listen to its recitation by clicking on the verse)

Read this chronological newspaper archive:

Some thought questions:

How does this controversy relate to Lebanese identity politics?
What is the difference between Qur'anic recitation and Khalife's performance?
How is the controversy related to post-colonial issues of identity in Lebanon?
Why might Sunni authorities been more critical of Khalife than Shia?
Why is secularism such a contested issue in the post-colonial world? How does it follow from the colonial era, both top-down and bottom-up?
Why do you suppose the song created so much more controversy than the poem?

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 [http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/view/08992851/di011540/01p0015i/0?currentResult=08992851%2bdi011540%2b01p0015i%2b0%2c07&searchUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fsearch%2FBasicResults%3Fhp%3D25%26si%3D1%26gw%3Djtx%26jtxsi%3D1%26jcpsi%3D1%26artsi%3D1%26 A New World Order, A New Marcel Khalife]
-Browse these entries about [http://www.freemuse.org/sw2104.asp?lsearchdataid=20863 Marcel Khalife] in Freemuse, a website dedicated to freedom of musical expression.
+[http://www.freemuse.org/sw2104.asp?lsearchdataid=20863 Marcel Khalife] in Freemuse, a website dedicated to freedom of musical expression.
 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx0bgDWaLaU Watch this interview with Marcel Khalife]