KSA AI
MacKenzie Sigalos, CNBC, Saudi Arabia goes big in Davos as it looks to become a top AI tech hub for the Middle East, 19 Jan 2024 “Becoming a tech...
Reading List: Making Islam Work
I’ll be catching up with this book soon: it looks really interesting, and it is Open Access. Thijl Sunier, (2023). Making Islam Work. Leiden: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004684928
Tate Channels Cut
Tim Hume, Vice, Andrew Tate Channels Culled By YouTube After Revelations About Get Rich Quick “Cult”, 18 Jan 2024 “Channels with hundreds of thousands of subscribers, including one with...
AI Dubbing
I’m working on different aspects of AI now, and I wrote about it in Islamic Algorithms (out May), so I found this super interesting.
Indonesia: Anti-Rohingya Social Media
Rebecca Ratcliffe and Ardila Syakriah, The Guardian, The online hate campaign turning Indonesians against Rohingya refugees, 18 Jan 2024 “In a statement this week, Human Rights Watch accused anonymous accounts...
Journal of Islamic Research
The Türkiye-based Journal of Islamic Research‘s archives are online. The archives now go back to 1986. As a footnote, I’m on the journal’s Advisory Board.
Houthi Issues
Newsweek, Hot Houthi Pirate Wants People To Stop Salivating Over Him, 17 Jan 2024 Newsweek is one of numerous channels covering this individual, who is apparently lighting up social...
AI in Islam
Изкуственият интелект на Аллах (продължение) Here’s the second part of an interesting article by Atanas Shinikov on aspects of artificial intelligence in Islam, which also summarises some key points...
Shifting Dimensions: The Evolution of Religious Authority in Islamic Digital Spaces
This Thursday, 18th January, between 6.00-8.00 PM CET, I’m giving an online presentation as part of the Islam in Digital Spaces series organised by the Zentrum für Islamische Studien,...