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Mark LeVine

Mark LeVine is professor of modern Middle Eastern history, culture and Islamic studies at UC Irvine. He is the author or editor of over half a dozen books, including Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam (Random House/Verso), An Impossible Peace: Oslo and the Burdens of History (Zed Books, in press), and Why They Don?t Hate Us: Lifting the Veil on the Axis of Evil (Oneworld Publications, 2005). He is currently a visiting Professor at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University, Sweden. As a musician he has performed and recorded around the world with numerous artists.

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Religion Dispatches

Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam

The author discusses his journey through a Muslim subculture, the connection between Nietzsche and Hendrix, and how heavy metal might end the war on terror…
Mark LeVine
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Religion Dispatches

Changing the Jewish State and the State of Jews: J Street and the Future of Israel

The Israeli ambassador to the US recently joined the American right charging that pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian J Street put the very “survival of the Jewish state” into question. Indeed, recognizing the full humanity of Palestinians would require a radical transformation of Israeli, Zionist, and even Jewish-American identity.
Mark LeVine
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