Ellwood Video
UK MP Tobias Ellwood’s video on Afghanistan was not well-received in the UK (but was reposted by the Taliban). Here’s a summary: Roh Yakobi, KabulNow, Opinion: Normalising the Taliban...
Cloned Voices
There are going to be some interesting religious decisions that will have to be made once this launches:
Iran Protests 2023 (update)
RRE/RL, Iranian Protests Spread Over Morality Police Crackdowns, 18 July 2023. “Masses of demonstrators are turning out throughout Iran, where some are shouting down police enforcement of strict religious...
Ustad Noor Bakhsh
Sayida Ansari, The Guardian, ‘Totally full of spiritual energy’: Ustad Noor Bakhsh, the Pakistani musician going global in his 70s, 19 July 2023 “In clips of sunset jams near...
New & Noted: “Gender Beliefs of Muslim Facebook Users”
This looks interesting: Charles, M., Friedland, R., Afary, J., & Yang, R. (2023). Complicating Patriarchy: Gender Beliefs of Muslim Facebook Users in the Middle East, North Africa, and South...
COP28 @UAE
CNN, Fake Twitter profiles, Wikipedia editing and PR battles: Inside the push to greenwash the COP28 climate summit, 18 July 2023 “The optics of a major oil-producing country organizing the world’s...
Blog Calendar
FYI I have added the Hijri calendar to all my blog posts. I hope this is a useful feature for readers. WP-Hijri provides the WordPress plug-in.
‘Iran’s Hijab-Industrial Complex’
Analysis/opinion. There are some social media elements to this discussion too: Kourosh Ziabari, New Lines Magazine, Iran’s Hijab-Industrial Complex, 19 July 2023 “Iran Open Data, a data transparency and...
India Internet Issues
Parth M.N., Instagram Posts About a 17th-Century King Are Getting People Arrested, 17 July 2023 ““What has happened offline has happened online,” says Osama Manzar, founder of the Digital...