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Majidreza Rahnavard

A viral video shows executed Iranian protester Majidreza Rahnavard apparently saying his last words blindfolded before being executed. He says he’s written in his will he doesn’t want anyone...
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Iran TikTok

Whitney Shylee May, The Conversation, Iranian protesters turn to TikTok to get their message past government censors “One effective method the protesters have hit on has been to use...
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  • Sun 17 Jumada Al Oula 1444AH 11-12-2022AD
  • Research

Iran-net

“The Islamic Republic’s restriction of Iranian people’s access to internet is a violation of int’l human rights law that enables the regime to continue committing atrocities with full impunity,”...
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  • Fri 15 Jumada Al Oula 1444AH 9-12-2022AD
  • ChatGPT

ChatGPT

This is an interesting discussion on ChatGPT – which I have been investigating in relation to #Islam issues (findings to follow in due course) Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, Five...
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IS

Mail Online, Brother faces jail for sharing ISIS-supporting propaganda as his sibling is cleared of terror charges “One brother is facing jail while another was cleared of sharing Islamic...
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AI Iran

Sam Biddle, The Intercept, ‘The Internet’s New Favorite AI Proposes Torturing Iranians and Surveilling Mosques’, 8 Dec 2022 “And after gorging itself on an unfathomably vast training diet of...
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ArabPod

Zaira Lakhpatwala, Arab News, Podcasts: The future of media in the Arab world? ” There are estimated to be more than 10 million podcast listeners in the Middle East...
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Indonesia TikTok Hijab

Risyiana Muthia, Al Jazeera, Indonesia’s TikTok sellers do roaring trade in hijab, handbags “Most of Cicalengka’s production caters to brick-and-mortar wholesale markets across the Southeast Asian country but Pambudi...
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Palestine Tapes

BBC World Service, The Palestinian tapes, part 1 “Mo’min Swaitat unearthed a vast trove of forgotten Palestinian music. Not only did it hold long-lost recordings of his own Bedouin...
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  • Tue 5 Jumada Al Oula 1444AH 29-11-2022AD
  • Fatwas

Football Fatwa

Thaer Mansour, The New Arab, World Cup 2022: Egyptian Salafi leader’s football ‘fatwa’ stirs controversy “Head of the ultraconservative Nour party congress and former party president, Younis Makhyoun, criticised...
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