Trans Pakistanis
Hasan Ali, CSM, Why Nayyab Ali puts her life on the line to protect trans Pakistanis “Ms. Ali founded the school (Khawaja Sira Quran School) as a space where...
Algorithms’ Impact
Joe Whittaker, GNET, Recommendation Systems and Extremism: What Do We Know?, 17 Aug 2022 “One of the most persistent policy concerns of recent years is the notion that social...
IS Cell Sentences
Steve Swann, BBC News, Islamic State ‘Beatles’: How 2011 arrests led to convictions, 18 Aug 2022 “Hostages freed by the Islamic State terror cell, known as The Beatles, gave...
Saudi Arabia: Salma al-Shehab
Sky News, Salma al-Shehab: Leeds student jailed in Saudi Arabia is being used ‘to set an example’ and must be ‘immediately released’, says Amnesty International “Ms al-Shehab, who was...
Twitter Agent
Joel Rosenblatt and Robert Burnson, Bloomberg, Former Twitter Employee Convicted of Spying for Saudi Arabia“A former Twitter Inc. employee was convicted of spying for Saudi Arabia by turning over...
Podcast: John Cantlie
This is an excellent podcast series from ‘Story of our Times’. It provides a level of depth about Cantlie as an individual, and how he dealt with the challenges...
Salman Rushdie Attacked
Reuters, Iran’s hardline newspapers praise Salman Rushdie’s attacker, 13 Aug 2022 “Several hardline Iranian newspapers heaped praise on Saturday on the person who attacked and seriously wounded author Salman...
Indonesian Muslim schoolgirls online
Claire-Marie Hefner, Morality, religious authority, and the digital edge: Indonesian Muslim schoolgirls online, American Ethnologist, Vol. 0, No. 0, pp. 1–15, ISSN 0094-0496, online, ISSN 1548-1425 “In Indonesian Islamic...
Zawahiri
Meili Criezis, GNET, Al Qa’ida and Islamic State Supporter Reactions to Zawahiri’s Death, 8 Aug 2022 “This Insight provides a quick overview of al-Qa’ida supporter reactions to Zawahiri’s death...