Support from @ssrc_org made this story possible and it was an honor diving into some aspects of it with Ava McLaughlin, a fellow media scholar, for @SSRC_items (📷: a cassette recording of Shaykh Antar, who was banned by al-Azhar from reciting the Qurʾan).
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Check out this interview with 2015 IDRF Fellow Andrew Simon @simongandrew! He speaks with program assistant Ava McLaughlin about his new book, and the role cassette tapes played in shaping Egyptian culture in the second half of the twentieth century. items.ssrc.org/from-our-fello…
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