Interview with Professor Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen from the Copenhagen University

Professor Skovgaard- Petersen teaches at the Department of Cross Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen. A specialist of Islamic Studies, Islamic Law but above all Arab media, he has written numerous works about media in the Arab world and gained a great amount of knowledge about Egypt thanks to his research. Right now he is involved in a project called "The New Islamic Public Sphere" which has as its mission according to the project's website to "map and analyse how new media such as satellite TV and the Internet are changing Islamic norms, politics and identity in the contemporary Middle East." We are very thankful to Professor Skovgaard- Petersen for having agreed to give us this interview and to Rasmus Schäffner Jacobsen, a student at Copenhagen University, who conducted the interview on our behalf.