This contribution is an attempt to describe the challenges Islamwissenschaft has to face in a time of increased Islamophobia and (neo)Orientalism, triggered by worldwide Islamist terrorism and large-scale immigration of ...

There were few, if any, bookstores in Cairo that did not, in 2013, have a section designated to a category of books labelled adab sākhir. Their titles play on humor and familiar Egyptian references; they are often in the ...

In this paper, we present a Child-to-Child method (C2C) for co-designing with children for younger children. The method is illustrated using a design case, where an interactive space for young children in Children’s Museum ...

In this chapter, I aim to show that concerns beyond the political were involved in the sharp distinction between news and opinion that was articulated in the censorship instruction. I will argue that the structure of the ...

This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Queering International Law: Possibilities, Alliances, Complicities, Risks on 2017-07-14, available online: https://www.routledge.com/Queering-Int ...

This article discusses the problems that arise in the encounter between an intact honour culture (Pakistani) and a weakened honour culture (Norwegian). In the novel Izzat (1996) honour performances are largely connected ...

The Scandinavian welfare societies depend on strong states to provide public services and to redistribute income. Scandinavians enjoy comprehensive welfare systems that offer citizens social security within open economies. ...

Certain traditional Norwegian and Swedish dance tunes in triple meter are referred to as being in so-called asymmetrical meter—that is, the three beats in the measure are of uneven duration. Norwegian telespringar is ...

In this chapter, I explore the assignment of particular gender stereotypes to sound and performance in contemporary electronically produced dance music, focusing on the sonic quality of ‘fluffiness’ (cf. Gavanas and Reitsamer ...