Shereen El Feki Quotes


4Shbab has been dubbed Islamic MTV. Its creator, who is an Egyptian TV producer called Ahmed Abu Haiba, wants young people to be inspired by Islam to lead better lives. He reckons the best way to get that message across is to use the enormously popular medium of music videos. 4Shbab was set up as an alternative to existing Arab music channels.


Citations

El Feki, Shereen. "Pop Culture in the Arab World!" TED, July 2009.

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This statement is so absurd, that one marvels that an agency of the United States Government could publish such a statement. It was all the more embarrassing in that the FBI had as one of its objectives developing relationships with Muslim communities across the country. The FBI did withdraw the publication, but there were dozens of FBI officials who read this and approved its publication. They were either themselves Islamaphobic and/or extremely ignorant. One of the worst things about such a statement, is that it does not warn about one real problem that some extremist Muslims want modern Islamic states to adopt a literal view of the Koran which reflects 7th century values, knowledge, and culture. Those fundamentalists have kept modernism from changing and developing several Islamic countries. Most Muslims nations have very little that resembles 7th century Arabia and a nation like Turkey is more modern than many of the nations of Europe.


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  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Journalist, Author

Shereen El Feki (Arabic: شيرين الفقي‎; born 1967 or 1968) is a British journalist and author, most notable for her book Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World.