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Joking About Jihad - Comedy and Terror in the Arab World (Paperback)
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Joking About Jihad - Comedy and Terror in the Arab World (Paperback)
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Can laughter really be used to undermine the appeal of terrorist
groups? And should it be? Is there any truth in the stereotypical
notions of fanaticism as humourless, and of humour as the
antithesis of fanaticism? What is the deeper significance of the
jihadi's status as an object of mockery in Arabic popular culture?
Joking About Jihad explores this thicket of problems sprouting from
one of the most basic--and supposedly most innocent--of human
behaviours, and looks at how it has been applied to one of the
least obviously laughable phenomena in the world today. Ramsay and
Alkheder draw on original interviews and hitherto unexamined texts,
combining insights from fields as diverse as politics, psychology,
cultural studies, Islamic studies and humour research. Examining
apparently spontaneous joking, professional comedy and even the
jokes told by jihadis themselves, they show how Salafi jihad has
been made laughable in the modern Arab world, and why it matters.
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