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Joseph Alagha received his PhD in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies from the Free University of Amsterdam. Alagha, a postdoctoral researcher at Radboud University Nijmegen , the Netherlands, is the author of The Shifts in Hizbullah’s Ideology (2006) and Hizbullah ’s Documents (2010), both published by Amsterdam University Press. He has published widely on Islamic movements, Iran, Lebanon, Hizbullah, the Palestinian Intifada, jihadi Salafism, and political mobilization and performing arts in the Middle East. Michael Frishkopf is an ethnomusicologist. He is an associate professor in the Department of Music, and associate director of the Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology, at the University of Alberta (Canada). He specializes in sounds of Islamic ritual, the Arab world, and West Africa. His research interests also include social network analysis, action research, and digital multimedia technology. He has an edited collection entitled Music and Media in the Arab World in press (American University in Cairo Press), and two books in progress : The Sounds of Islam (Routledge), and Sufism, Ritual and Modernity in Egypt: Language Performance as an Adaptive Strategy (Brill). Pierre Hecker is a visiting lecturer at the Institute of Oriental Studies at the University of Leipzig, Germany. His main research interests are youth and youth cultures in Muslim societies, as well as gender studies. He is the author of several articles on heavy metal in the Middle East and coeditor of the book Muslimische Gesellschaften in der Moderne (Muslim Societies in Modernity) (Wiener Studien Verlag, 2007). Farzaneh Hemmasi is an ethnomusicologist and Visiting Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at Hunter College in New York. She recently completed her dissertation at Columbia University on Iranian exiles in North America, popular music, and transnational media production and circulation. She has been a fellow with Columbia’s Middle East Institute and Institute for Social and Economic Policy, and her work has been published in the Iran-based journal Mahoor Musical Quarterly. Currently, she is working on a book manuscript that examines the intersection of music, technological mediation, and politics in Iran and its diasporas from the 1950s to the present. Her other interests include migration , dance and dance musics, and popular culture in the United States and Middle East. Jonathan H. Shannon is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY). He was a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for 2009–2010. His main research interests are music, aesthetics, ethnomusicology, modernity, and food in the Middle East and the Mediterranean . His main publications include “Sultans of Spin: Syrian Sacred Music on the World Stage,” in American Anthropologist, and Among the Jasmine Trees: Music and Modernity in Contemporary Syria (Wesleyan University Press, 2006). Thomas Solomon is an associate professor in the Grieg Academy–Department of Music at the University of Bergen, Norway. He has taught ethnomusicology and popular music studies at Istanbul Technical University, the University of Minnesota, and New York notes on contributors 282 muslim rap, halal soaps, and revolutionary theater University. He has conducted field research in Bolivia on musical imaginations of ecology , place, and identity; and in Istanbul on place and identity in Turkish hip-hop. He has also done research on Turkish video clips and on music in the Turkish diaspora in Europe. His publications include articles in the journals Ethnomusicology, Popular Music, Yearbook for Traditional Music, and European Journal of Cultural Studies, as well as papers in several edited volumes. Zeinab Stellar is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto, Canada. Her research currently centers on performing arts in the Middle East, chiefly focusing on the interrelations of the performing body, biopolitics, gender performativity, and representation. Martin Stokes is University Lecturer in Ethnomusicology at Oxford University, and a Fellow of St. John’s College. He researches music with a particular interest in social and cultural theory. His publications include The Arabesk Debate: Music and Musicians in Modern Turkey (Clarendon Press, 1992) and Ethnicity, Identity and Music: The Musical Construction of Place (Berg, 1994). His most recent book is The Republic of Love: Cultural Intimacy in Turkish Popular Music (University of Chicago Press, 2010). Karin van Nieuwkerk is an anthropologist and associate professor at the University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and coordinator of the NWO (Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research) research program Islam and the Performing Arts in Europe and the Middle East. Her main fields of interest are gender and conversion to Islam, Islam and migration in Europe, and performing arts and entertainment in Egypt...

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