The Sheikh's Batmobile

By Poplak Richard

Subjects: Civilisation, Influence américaine, Kultur, Culture populaire, American influences, Islam, Nonfiction, Civilization, Popular culture, Pays musulmans, Pop-Kultur, History, Einfluss

Description: In 2005, Al Shamshoon—an Arabized version of The Simpsons—debuted on an Egyptian satellite station. Pop-culture commentator Richard Poplak was so intrigued that he set off to uncover other examples of North American taste translated and reinterpreted for a Muslim audience. The result of this journey is a fast-paced and culturally savvy look at what happens to North American pop-culture when it is consumed and reinterpreted in the Muslim world—and what that says about how we are viewed by the hundreds of millions of young Muslims.