Joseph Alagha is Professor of Political Science, Sociology, and Intercultural Studies at Haigazian University, Beirut, Lebanon. He is the author of Hizbullah's Identity Construction (2011).

• Introduction: Post-Islamism and Performance Activism Chapter 1: Jihad al-Tabyyin, Humor, and Performance Activism in Contemporary Muslim Societies Chapter 2: Sunni Discourses on Performance Activism: Jihad al-Lisan and Moderation (Wasatiyyah) Chapter 3: Shi‘i Discourses on Performance Activism: Jihad al-Tabyyin and Pious Entertainment in Hizbullah’s Islamic Cultural Sphere Chapter 4: Jihad al-Tabyyin vis-à-vis Music: Hizbullah’s and the Taliban’s Performance Activism Chapter 5: Jihad al-Tabyyin vis-à-vis Dance: Fadlallah’s and Al-Banna’s Performance Activism Conclusion Appendix: List of InterviewsGlossary Bibliography Index

"Dr. Joseph Alagha’s Performance Activism in the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and Beyond is a pioneering project covering the artistic expression of contemporary Islamic movements as an advanced and modernist paradigm fusing performing arts with political mobilization to generate ‘resistance’ art as a complementary and broadening version of Islamism’s ‘resistance’ and jihad. This is a first and must-read study.”