BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4320-50c2b1c28a224360f9f94cc75e8bdfc2@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260623T145015Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220428T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220428T173000 SUMMARY:Unknown Past: Layla Murad, the Jewish-Muslim Star of Egypt DESCRIPTION:\nIn this talk\, Professor Hanan Hammad\n\nemploys the life and legacy of Layla Murad\,\n\none of the most beloved and remembered\n\ nArab singing stars in the twentieth century\, to analyze politics of se xuality\, ethnicity\, socio-cultural interaction between Muslims and Jew s\, and the crucial role popular culture played in constructing an exclu sive Arab-Islamic Egyptian identity. Born into a\n\nJewish family in 191 8 and converted to\n\nIslam in the late 1940s\, Layla Murad\n\nprovides an excellent example to\n\nshowcase that Jews of Egypt and the\n\nArab E ast broadly lived within a web of\n\nemotional\, social\, and institutio nal relations with multiple and fluid identities\,\n\nrather than a narr ow religious identity.\n\nHanan Hammad\, professor of history and foundi ng director of Middle East studies at Texas Christian University.\n\nThi s talk is the keynote lecture for the \;&ldquo\;Reimagining Jewish L ife in the Modern Middle East\, 1800&ndash\;Present: Culture\, Society\, and History&rdquo\; workshop.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.ps u.edu/event/hi_unknown-past/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

In this talk, P rofessor Hanan Hammad
employs the life and legacy of Layla Murad,one of the most beloved and remembered
Arab singing stars in th e twentieth century, to analyze politics of sexuality, ethnicity, socio- cultural interaction between Muslims and Jews, and the crucial role popu lar culture played in constructing an exclusive Arab-Islamic Egyptian id entity. Born into a
Jewish family in 1918 and converted to
Isl am in the late 1940s, Layla Murad
provides an excellent example to< br />showcase that Jews of Egypt and the
Arab East broadly lived wi thin a web of
emotional, social, and institutional relations with m ultiple and fluid identities,
rather than a narrow religious identi ty.

Hanan Hammad, professor of history and founding director of Mi ddle East studies at Texas Christian University.

This talk is the keynote lecture for the “Reimagining Jewish Life in the Moder n Middle East, 1800–Present: Culture, Society, and History” workshop.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/hi_unknown-past/

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