{"id":319,"date":"2014-01-07T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2014\/01\/what-do-barbie-fulla-have-in-common.html"},"modified":"2014-07-27T10:49:22","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T15:49:22","slug":"what-do-barbie-fulla-have-in-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2014\/01\/what-do-barbie-fulla-have-in-common.html","title":{"rendered":"What do Barbie &#038; Fulla Have in Common?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/shereen_el_feki_pop_culture_in_the_arab_world.html\" width=\"460\" height=\"257\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Islam and the West\u2013A clash of civilizations? Maybe not.<\/p>\n<p>In this engaging short clip above, Shereen El Feki suggests that Islam represents a mesh of civilizations or a \u201ccross cultural hybridization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She offers examples of this hybridization. \u00a0They include Barbie and Fulla. And El Feki points to 4Shabab, or Arab TV, which combines both Western and Muslim ideas. \u00a0She shows how Islam\u2019s first superheroes, the 99, eventually join forces with Wonder Woman and Superman.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.patheos.com.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/files\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-wr2oAb9sTFA\/Usg2KWrTgjI\/AAAAAAAAFCY\/e-dxUaYsoWg\/s200\/99.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"160\" border=\"0\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a style=\"clear: left; display: inline !important;\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/433\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-1FtSuooCZIs\/UsgzG4-IwPI\/AAAAAAAAFCE\/bRBVkCz8vRQ\/s200\/barbie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"139\" height=\"200\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islam and the West\u2013A clash of civilizations? 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