| Title | City Debates 2008: Spaces of faith and fun | Posters |
| Name(s) | Chehab, Sarah (Main Author)
Tohme, Nour (Related name)
American University of Beirut. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture. Urban Planning and Urban Design Program (Related name)
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| Physical Details | 1poster; printed, col.; 59x42cm
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| Subjects | Islam--Doctrines
Faith (Islam)
Debates and debating
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| Notes | Date/time: 2008-OCT-27-28; Department of Architecture and Design, Architecture Lecture Hall, AUB
Summary: City Debates 2008: "Spaces of faith and fun". October 27-28, 2008.
Department of Architecture and Design, AUB Architecture Lecture Hall (ALH). The Masters in Urban Planning Policy and Urban Design (MUPP-MUD) presents: October 27, 6:30pm: Opening lecture: "The Politics of fun" Asef Bayat (ISIM/Un. Of Leiden), discussant: Sabrina Mervin (CNRS Paris). October 28, 9:00am-6:00: "Spaces of faith and fun", session I:"Commemoration and Pilgrimage as Entertainment" Paulo Pinto (Un. Federal Fluminense, Brazil): Visiting Zaynab: Piety, Entertainment and Mass Pilgrimage at the Shi'i: Shrines in Syria. Sabrina Mervin (CNRS / IFPO, Beirut):"Kull and Karbala": The space of Shi'i; Theater, discussant: Walid Sadek (AUB). Session II: "Everyday Practices as Challenges to/ within Pious Circles" Talal Atrissi (Lebanese University, Beirut):"Music as an Expression of Political Transformations in Islamic Movements: The case of Hezbollah" (in Arabic). Annelies Moors (ISIM,Leiden): "Islam and Fashion in European Cities: Public Debates and Everyday Life", discussant: Kirsten Scheid (AUB). Session III: "Spatializing Muslim Piety" Mona Harb (AUB): "Negotiating Religious Morality in the City: Practices of Pious Leisure in Beirut", discussant: Howayda al- Harithy (AUB). 5:00-6:00, closing note by Annelies Moors, followed by an open discussion, moderator: Mona Harb (AUB).
General: The Central element of fun as Bayat explained focuses on joy and the defined fun as a non-routine joyful conduct in which individuals break free from the discipline of everyday life, he asked why certain political groups and ideologies particularly Islamists are apprehensive of fun while living in Cairo he witnessed Islamists preventing individuals from dancing and singing and even playing music at weddings, these acts of fun among others are discouraged and at times banned in countries like Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Iran. Islamists fear that fun distracts from the worship of God and other religious duties. He noted that fun was not always associated with Islamists; the revolutionary leaders such as Bolsheviks discouraged fun because it would distract people from the goals of the revolution and lead to threatening the movement. This conference is co-organized with the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM). Supported by the Brazilian Embassy, Institute Fransais du Porche-Orient and Issam Fares Institute. For info: mh22@aub.edu.lb. Designed by Sarah Chehab and Nour Tohme. Printed: Anis Commercial Printing House.
MPubs: See also AUBBulletin Today, v.10, no.2, November 2008, p.16; See also AUBnet Web Bulletin
Availability: http://www.aub.edu.lb/cgi-bin/wpub/wpub?cgitype=view&id=87281
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