Auteur: Karin van Nieuwkerk

Karin van Nieuwkerk is an anthropologist and professor of contemporary Islam in Europe and the Middle East at Radboud University, the Netherlands. She is the author of ‘A Trade Like Any Other’: Female Singers and Dancers in Egypt (1995) and Performing Piety: Singers and Actors in Egypt’s Islamic Revival (2013). She is also co-editor of five volumes on Islam, performing arts, and popular culture, including Enjoying Religion: Pleasure and Fun in Established and New Religious Movements (2018).