Mark LeVine is a Guggenheim-winning musician who has recorded and toured with acclaimed performers, including Mick Jagger, Chuck D, Dr. John, Ozomatli, Hassan Hakmoun, Seun and Femi Kuti, and other leading Middle Eastern and African artists. His recording on Ozomatli’s album Street Signs won a Grammy in 2005. He is also Professor of Middle Eastern and African Histories at the University of California, Irvine. His many books include Twilight of Empire, coedited with Viggo Mortensen. He is also author of Overthrowing Geography and coeditor of One Land, Two States. His newest book, We’ll Play till We Die, is an expansive sequel to Heavy Metal Islam, covering the revolutionary era that began soon after this book was first published.

• ContentsPreface to the 2022 Edition Introduction: Rock and Resistance in the Muslim World1 • Morocco: When the Music Is Banned, the Real Satanism Will Begin 2 • Egypt: Bloggers, Brothers, and the General’s Son3 • Israel/Palestine: Hard Music in an Orphaned Land4 • Lebanon: Music and the Power of Blood5 • Iran: “Like a Flower Growing in the Middle of the Desert” 6 • Pakistan: Shotguns and Munaqqababes along the Arabian Sea Epilogue: Which Way to the Future? Acknowledgments Bibliography Index

Mark LeVine is a Guggenheim-winning musician who has recorded and toured with acclaimed performers, including Mick Jagger, Chuck D, Dr. John, Ozomatli, Hassan Hakmoun, Seun and Femi Kuti, and other leading Middle Eastern and African artists. His recording on Ozomatli’s album Street Signs won a Grammy in 2005. He is also Professor of Middle Eastern and African Histories at the University of California, Irvine. His many books include Twilight of Empire, coedited with Viggo Mortensen. He is also author of Overthrowing Geography and coeditor of One Land, Two States. His newest book, We’ll Play till We Die, is an expansive sequel to Heavy Metal Islam, covering the revolutionary era that began soon after this book was first published.

• ContentsPreface to the 2022 Edition Introduction: Rock and Resistance in the Muslim World1 • Morocco: When the Music Is Banned, the Real Satanism Will Begin 2 • Egypt: Bloggers, Brothers, and the General’s Son3 • Israel/Palestine: Hard Music in an Orphaned Land4 • Lebanon: Music and the Power of Blood5 • Iran: “Like a Flower Growing in the Middle of the Desert” 6 • Pakistan: Shotguns and Munaqqababes along the Arabian Sea Epilogue: Which Way to the Future? Acknowledgments Bibliography Index

Mark LeVine is a Guggenheim-winning musician who has recorded and toured with acclaimed performers, including Mick Jagger, Chuck D, Dr. John, Ozomatli, Hassan Hakmoun, Seun and Femi Kuti, and other leading Middle Eastern and African artists. His recording on Ozomatli’s album Street Signs won a Grammy in 2005. He is also Professor of Middle Eastern and African Histories at the University of California, Irvine. His many books include Twilight of Empire, coedited with Viggo Mortensen. He is also author of Overthrowing Geography and coeditor of One Land, Two States. His newest book, We’ll Play till We Die, is an expansive sequel to Heavy Metal Islam, covering the revolutionary era that began soon after this book was first published.

• ContentsPreface to the 2022 Edition Introduction: Rock and Resistance in the Muslim World1 • Morocco: When the Music Is Banned, the Real Satanism Will Begin 2 • Egypt: Bloggers, Brothers, and the General’s Son3 • Israel/Palestine: Hard Music in an Orphaned Land4 • Lebanon: Music and the Power of Blood5 • Iran: “Like a Flower Growing in the Middle of the Desert” 6 • Pakistan: Shotguns and Munaqqababes along the Arabian Sea Epilogue: Which Way to the Future? Acknowledgments Bibliography Index