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The Sheikh's Batmobile: In Pursuit of American Pop Culture in the Muslim World

Richard Poplak

Paperback | Pages: 408 pages

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Title	:	The Sheikh's Batmobile: In Pursuit of American Pop Culture in the Muslim World
Author	:	Richard Poplak
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 408 pages
Published	:	March 24th 2009 by Penguin Canada
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Cultural. Music. Religion. Islam

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What happens to our pop culture when it meets another culture head-on—especially one that according to some is completely at odds with our own? In The Sheikh's Batmobile, pop-cultural commentator Richard Poplak sets out on an unusual two-year odyssey. His mission is to see what becomes of his, and North America's, obsessions—pop songs and sitcoms, Hollywood movies and shoot-em-up video games, muscle cars and punk music—when they make their way into the Muslim world.

Over the course of his journey, Poplak is body slammed by WWE fans in Afghanistan, hangs out with hip-hop artists in Palestine, head bangs to heavy metal in Cairo, discovers a world of extreme makeovers in Beirut, bowls with the chief of police in small-town Kazakhstan, and encounters a mysterious Texan building rocket-propelled batmobiles for a clientele of sheikhs.

With uproarious humour and   keen cultural insight, Poplak asks some vital questions: How is American pop culture consumed and reinterpreted in the Islamic world? What does that say about how we are viewed by young Muslims? And can Homer Simpson bridge the differences that are tearing our world apart?

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Original Title:	The Sheikh's Batmobile: In Pursuit of American Pop Culture in the Muslim World
ISBN:	0143056557 (ISBN13: 9780143056553)
Edition Language:	English

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Okay. I think I was expecting/wanting something more scholarly and this was just the author's random thoughts while traveling around the Middle East. It was okay, but I think the author's style just didn't grab me.

Richard Poplak is the author of the acclaimed Ja, No, Man: Growing Up White in Apartheid-era South Africa and The Sheikh's Batmobile: In Pursuit of American Pop Culture in the Muslim World. He has written for, among others, The Walrus, THIS Magazine, Toronto Life, and The Globe & Mail and has directed numerous short films, music videos and commercials. He lives in Toronto, Ontario."An obvious benefit of social isolation during the dark times of Covid-19 is the opportunity to finally read books that have sat idle on our bookshelves. I had high hopes for this book given that captivating subject matter of Western pop culture on the Islamic world. Unfortunately, the writing was obtuse and the author failed to capture my interest and imagination. Skip this one.

Pretty entertaining book, premise is that the shared fascination with American popular culture is building linkages and bridges between Islamic countries and the west, that the Islamic world is much less differnt and menacing than it usually appears to outsiders, and ultimately we have a lot more in common than we often think.

Visiting seventeen Muslim countries, Richard Poplak heads out in search of an old Turkish film hed run across in his youth, all the while wondering how Western pop culture could find its way into the very countries whose governments might otherwise be hostile to the message contained therein. Instead he discovers along his journey that while the West might have helped inspire the creation of similar properties, they are not just imitations, but re-imaginations that speak to some of the very same

An interesting look at the Islamic reaction to western pop culture from rap and heavy metal to body building and the Simpsons

A fascinating book about what happens to American pop culture when it goes to the Muslim world. I learned a lot about heavy metal, hip hop, the Simpsons (and why it failed in the Middle East) Freej, and life in the Middle East. Some sections were better than others.

interesting book, but i was hoping it would be more humourous. it ended up being a little more academic than i bargained for.