Fifty years have passed since Bruce Lee’s kung fu films gave rise to the global karate boom of the 1970s. Egypt was not an exception. Young Egyptian men who already had experience in martial arts switched to karate and shaped the first generation of karateka in Egypt. Through her offline/online dialogues with Egyptian karate practitioners, Hatsuki Aishima explores the changing roles of face-to-face transmission of embodied knowledge when digital media increasingly shape our everyday lives in significant ways.
Hatsuki Aishima is a social anthropologist of the Middle East and an intellectual historian of modern Islam who has been carrying out ethnographic field research among urban middle classes of Egypt. Her monograph, Islam and Public Culture in Modern Egypt: Media, Intellectuals and Society (IB Tauris, 2016) explored the role of mass media and modern education in shaping the public knowledge, scholarly culture and literary tradition of Islam. Her publications have appeared in Die Welt des Islams, Culture and Religion, and the American Historical Review.
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