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MDPI, Religions, 4(6), p. 1277-1313, 2015

DOI: 10.3390/rel6041277

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When Art Is the Weapon: Culture and Resistance Confronting Violence in the Post-Uprisings Arab World

Journal article published in 2015 by Mark LeVine
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

This articles explores the explosion of artistic production in the Arab world during the so-called Arab Spring. Focusing on music, poetry, theatre, and graffiti and related visual arts, I explore how these “do-it-yourself” scenes represent, at least potentially, a “return of the aura” to the production of culture at the edge of social and political transformation. At the same time, the struggle to retain a revolutionary grounding in the wake of successful counter-revolutionary moves highlights the essentially “religious” grounding of “committed” art at the intersection of intense creativity and conflict across the Arab world.