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SUMMARY:Between Power and Beauty: Preliminary Reflections on Egyptian Kar
 ate Communities
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DESCRIPTION:The history of karate in Egypt is not long\, and yet it has e
 stablished firm roots in youth culture. Karate is the second most popula
 r sport in Egypt after football. This paper explores the popularity of k
 arate as a cultural practice of the urban middle class in which they exp
 eriment on a variety of ways to be “modern”. Karate is a unique sport. O
 ne’s strength is evaluated by the potential of destroying the adversary.
  Many players assert that karate is difficult because controlling one’s 
 force shortly before touching the adversary’s flesh is technically more 
 advanced and require more strength than actually hitting or kicking the 
 target. In other words\, during the match\, whether kata (pattern) or ku
 mite (sparring)\, the players are performing the powerful within the est
 ablished framework of aesthetics.\n\nHatsuki Aishima is a social anthrop
 ologist of Islam and the Middle East. Her forthcoming monograph\, Islam 
 and Public Culture in Modern Egypt: Media\, Intellectuals and Society\, 
 explores Islamic learning as the middle classes’ aspiration for “culture
 ”. Since 2012 she has been working on a Japan Society for the Promotion 
 of Science Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists project\, A Socio-anthropol
 ogical Study of Karate as an Alternative Modernity in Contemporary Egypt
 .
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