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The middle East's MTV generation.(Book review)
Two books delve into the Middle East's burgeoning youth culture, looking at young people who maintain devotion to Islam and Iron Maiden and grapple creatively with tradition and modernity.
* Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam
Mark LeVine. Melville House, $13.95 paper (320p)ISBN 978-0-30735339-9
With a jolting arrangement of images and voices, LeVine powerfully upends received notions about the Middle East by exploring one of the area's least-known subcultures. Interviewing and jamming with musicians from Morocco to Pakistan--including rappers and trip-hop artists as well as metalheads--LeVine (Why They Don't Hate Us) …
