Tarik Sabry
Biographic Data
| ID | 642913 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tarik Sabry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tarik |
| FAMILY NAME | Sabry |
| SIGNATURE | SABRY T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Westminster |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0562-1570 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Moroccan Cultural Studies: A New Beginning
This article presents a critical examination of the challenges associated with grounding Moroccan cultural studies ( MCS ) in Moroccan academia. Drawing on their diverse experiences as teachers and researchers, the authors examine the institutional and epistemological constraints that underlie the historical marginalization of cultural studies within the Moroccan university system. These constraints range from Eurocentric curricula, a bureaucrati…
Aesthetic experience and performing arts in the Arab region: Towards an Audience-Centred Perspective
Ethnography as thrownness and the face of the sufferer
This article provides a self-reflexive account of ethnographic research conducted on the outskirts of Burj Al Brajneh, a Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut, run by Hezbollah. It focuses on ethnographic research conducted with a Syrian refugee family including the mother, father and three children. The research is well captured, in hindsight, by Sarah Pink’s definition of ethnography as a ‘reflexive and experiential process through which academic …
Emigration 2.0? Young Moroccans, emigration and the Internet
This article examines the relationship between young Moroccans’ uses of the Internet and their migratory project to Europe. It frames its analysis within key debates on international migration and makes the case for a more systematic exploration of the symbolic dimensions of emigration. The research conducted, (2011/2012) including qualitative interviews, focus groups and a survey, shows that although an increasing number of young Moroccans are u…
Arab Subcultures: Transformations in Theory and Practice
What is ‘Arab’ about Arab subcultures? This is the first book to set out to delineate different ways of studying and theorising Arab subcultural groups and practices, including film, graffiti, music, live art performances, Arab techies and youth cultures. Contributors tackle a number of questions including: How is the study of Arab subcultures to be theorised? How are we to analyse such creative processes in a new worldliness characterised by tra…
On being cosmopolitan and religious: A commentary
Media, activism and the new political: ‘Istanbul conversations’ on new media and left politics
Conversations' was the first public event organized by the Social Science Research Council's Transregional Virtual Research Initiative (TVRI) on media, activism, and the new political.The TVRI brings together scholars from a range of disciplines and world regions to examine the interrelationship of media and politics within and across 'InterAsia', a spatially and historically networked expanse stretching from the Middle East through East Asia.In …
Revolutions in the age of ‘globalization’: Between the trans-temporal and the trans-subjective
Arab Cultural Studies: Mapping the Field
Tarik Sabry is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication Theory at the University of Westminster. He is the author of Cultural Encounters in the Arab World: On Media, the Modern and the Everyday (I.B.Tauris, 2010) and is co-editor of the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication
Arab Cultural Studies – Thinking Aloud: Theorizing and Planning for the Future of a Discipline
AV: In putting together this volume on Arab cultural studies, I have had to be sensitive to the discursively loaded term “culture”. What would you say are the areas most in need of critical attenti
On Historicism, the Aporia of Time and the Arab Revolutions
The proposed intervention is borne out of intellectual frustration and dissatisfaction with facile and largely descriptive chronometric analyses of the ‘Arab Spring’, that have failed to articulate the revolutions beyond their chaotic, unfolding eventfulness. Focusing on and grappling with key themes such as history, historicism, modernity, post-modernity, technology, art and poetics, this intervention describes key responses to the Arab revoluti…
Intellectuals, Islam and Modernity
Cultural Encounters in the Arab World: On Media, the Modern and the Everyday
In this groundbreaking book, Tarik Sabry is seeking out the terrain for best understanding the experience of being modern in transitional societies. He adopts a dynamic, ethnographically based approach to the meanings of 'modernness' in the Arab context and, within a relational framework, focuses on structures of thought, everydayness and self-referentiality to explore the process of building a bridge that rejoins the 'modern' in Arab thought wit…
Cultural Encounters in the Arab World: On Media, the Modern and the Everyday
In this groundbreaking book, Tarik Sabry is seeking out the terrain for best understanding the experience of being modern in transitional societies. He adopts a dynamic, ethnographically based approach to the meanings of 'modernness' in the Arab context and, within a relational framework, focuses on structures of thought, everydayness and self-referentiality to explore the process of building a bridge that rejoins the 'modern' in Arab thought wit…
What is ‘global’ about Arab media
Emigration as popular culture: The case of Morocco
This article explores the symbolic dimensions of emigration by enquiring into the relationship between emigration as a social phenomenon in Morocco, and Moroccan popular culture. The article critiques the discourses of unity and reconciliation inherent in analyses of Moroccan popular culture and contends that the popular in Moroccan popular culture is a pseudo-popular that speaks for the voices of the centre. This article concentrates on three ta…
Emigration as popular culture: The case of Morocco
This article explores the symbolic dimensions of emigration by enquiring into the relationship between emigration as a social phenomenon in Morocco, and Moroccan popular culture. The article critiques the discourses of unity and reconciliation inherent in analyses of Moroccan popular culture and contends that the popular in Moroccan popular culture is a pseudo-popular that speaks for the voices of the centre. This article concentrates on three ta…
On Historicism, the Aporia of Time and the Arab Revolutions
The proposed intervention is borne out of intellectual frustration and dissatisfaction with facile and largely descriptive chronometric analyses of the ‘Arab Spring’, that have failed to articulate the revolutions beyond their chaotic, unfolding eventfulness. Focusing on and grappling with key themes such as history, historicism, modernity, post-modernity, technology, art and poetics, this intervention describes key responses to the Arab revoluti…
What is ‘global’ about Arab media
What is ‘global’ about Arab media
Emigration as popular culture: The case of Morocco
This article explores the symbolic dimensions of emigration by enquiring into the relationship between emigration as a social phenomenon in Morocco, and Moroccan popular culture. The article critiques the discourses of unity and reconciliation inherent in analyses of Moroccan popular culture and contends that the popular in Moroccan popular culture is a pseudo-popular that speaks for the voices of the centre. This article concentrates on three ta…
Cultural Encounters in the Arab World: On Media, the Modern and the Everyday
In this groundbreaking book, Tarik Sabry is seeking out the terrain for best understanding the experience of being modern in transitional societies. He adopts a dynamic, ethnographically based approach to the meanings of 'modernness' in the Arab context and, within a relational framework, focuses on structures of thought, everydayness and self-referentiality to explore the process of building a bridge that rejoins the 'modern' in Arab thought wit…
Cultural Encounters in the Arab World: On Media, the Modern and the Everyday
In this groundbreaking book, Tarik Sabry is seeking out the terrain for best understanding the experience of being modern in transitional societies. He adopts a dynamic, ethnographically based approach to the meanings of 'modernness' in the Arab context and, within a relational framework, focuses on structures of thought, everydayness and self-referentiality to explore the process of building a bridge that rejoins the 'modern' in Arab thought wit…
Intellectuals, Islam and Modernity
Arab Cultural Studies: Mapping the Field
Tarik Sabry is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication Theory at the University of Westminster. He is the author of Cultural Encounters in the Arab World: On Media, the Modern and the Everyday (I.B.Tauris, 2010) and is co-editor of the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication
Arab Cultural Studies – Thinking Aloud: Theorizing and Planning for the Future of a Discipline
AV: In putting together this volume on Arab cultural studies, I have had to be sensitive to the discursively loaded term “culture”. What would you say are the areas most in need of critical attenti
On Historicism, the Aporia of Time and the Arab Revolutions
The proposed intervention is borne out of intellectual frustration and dissatisfaction with facile and largely descriptive chronometric analyses of the ‘Arab Spring’, that have failed to articulate the revolutions beyond their chaotic, unfolding eventfulness. Focusing on and grappling with key themes such as history, historicism, modernity, post-modernity, technology, art and poetics, this intervention describes key responses to the Arab revoluti…
Revolutions in the age of ‘globalization’: Between the trans-temporal and the trans-subjective
Media, activism and the new political: ‘Istanbul conversations’ on new media and left politics
Conversations' was the first public event organized by the Social Science Research Council's Transregional Virtual Research Initiative (TVRI) on media, activism, and the new political.The TVRI brings together scholars from a range of disciplines and world regions to examine the interrelationship of media and politics within and across 'InterAsia', a spatially and historically networked expanse stretching from the Middle East through East Asia.In …
On being cosmopolitan and religious: A commentary
Arab Subcultures: Transformations in Theory and Practice
What is ‘Arab’ about Arab subcultures? This is the first book to set out to delineate different ways of studying and theorising Arab subcultural groups and practices, including film, graffiti, music, live art performances, Arab techies and youth cultures. Contributors tackle a number of questions including: How is the study of Arab subcultures to be theorised? How are we to analyse such creative processes in a new worldliness characterised by tra…
Emigration 2.0? Young Moroccans, emigration and the Internet
This article examines the relationship between young Moroccans’ uses of the Internet and their migratory project to Europe. It frames its analysis within key debates on international migration and makes the case for a more systematic exploration of the symbolic dimensions of emigration. The research conducted, (2011/2012) including qualitative interviews, focus groups and a survey, shows that although an increasing number of young Moroccans are u…
Ethnography as thrownness and the face of the sufferer
This article provides a self-reflexive account of ethnographic research conducted on the outskirts of Burj Al Brajneh, a Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut, run by Hezbollah. It focuses on ethnographic research conducted with a Syrian refugee family including the mother, father and three children. The research is well captured, in hindsight, by Sarah Pink’s definition of ethnography as a ‘reflexive and experiential process through which academic …
Aesthetic experience and performing arts in the Arab region: Towards an Audience-Centred Perspective
Moroccan Cultural Studies: A New Beginning
This article presents a critical examination of the challenges associated with grounding Moroccan cultural studies ( MCS ) in Moroccan academia. Drawing on their diverse experiences as teachers and researchers, the authors examine the institutional and epistemological constraints that underlie the historical marginalization of cultural studies within the Moroccan university system. These constraints range from Eurocentric curricula, a bureaucrati…
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (9 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Media studies (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works)