Shamima Begum Case
BBC News, Friend who inspired Shamima Begum to join IS mocks her as non-believer, 22 March 2023. “Shamima Begum’s best friend, who she says inspired her to join IS,...
Transgender Pakistan
Ayesha Le Breton, gal-dem, How Pakistan’s Khwaja Sira and transgender communities are fearing and fighting for their futures, 21 March 2023 Social media elements associated with this story. “There...
Middle East Digital Archive
Middle East Eye, Dusting off the family album: A personal history of the Middle East, 21 March 2023 “Photographs collated in a new digital Middle East archive shed new...
Iraq: 20 Years On
Jeremy Bowen, BBC News, Iraq war 20 years on: How invasion plunged country into decades of chaos, 20 March 2023 “It is a sign of how bad the past...
Podcast: The News Agents: Anoosheh Ashoori
The News Agents, Global, 20 March 2023 – this is a powerful and important interview by Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel with Anoosheh Ashoori and his daughter Elika –...
Research Articles: Muslim Instagram + Smartphones and Muslim ‘Dating’
A couple of related articles: Farah Hasan, 2022. “Muslim Instagram: Eternal Youthfulness and Cultivating Deen” Religions 13, no. 7: 658. “This article argues that Muslims have created a specific...
‘Islamic Authority and Centres of Knowledge Production in Europe’
Masooda Bano, Journal of Muslims in Europe, 11:1, Islamic Authority and Centres of Knowledge Production in Europe, 2022 Another one for my reading list. “The centrality of the Qurʾan...
‘Digital Islam and Muslim Millennials’
Zaid, Bouziane, Jana Fedtke, Don Donghee Shin, Abdelmalek El Kadoussi, and Mohammed Ibahrine. 2022. “Digital Islam and Muslim Millennials: How Social Media Influencers Reimagine Religious Authority and Islamic Practices”...
Gambling
Ramazani Mwamba, Manchester Evening News, ‘I knew it was haram but I couldn’t stop’: The addiction ‘suffocating’ young Muslim men, 19 March 2023 Online gambling is a component of...
Iran: Arrest of Dancers
Indy100, Selena Gomez praises ‘courageous’ Iranian girls ‘detained’ by police for dancing to her track ‘Calm Down’, 19 March 2023. “The video is understood to have been filmed near...