Houthi YouTube
Al Jazeera, Crackdown on YouTubers leaves little space for dissent in Yemen, 11 Jan 2023 “Three of Yemen’s most prominent YouTubers have been arrested in the past few weeks...
‘YouTube Village’
Adi Renaldi, WiredUK, The Tiny Indonesian Village That Makes YouTube Stars I’ve seen similar coverage before, but it’s great that @WiredUK have picked up on this story. “A former...
Digital Middle East
Abdellah Iftahy, Tom Isherwood, Chiara Marcati, and Karan Soni, McKinsey & Company, Digital consumers in the Middle East: Rising adoption and opportunity, 9 Jan 2023 “The region’s consumers have...
Turkey Child Bride Controversy
Riada Asimovic Akyol, New Lines Magazine, The Child Bride Who Shook Turkey “The shocking case of H.K.G., a girl who was “married” at 6 and sexually abused for years...
Wiley Blackwell Companion to Islamic Spirituality
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Islamic Spirituality has just been published. Congratulations to the editors Bruce B. Lawrence and Vincent J. Cornell for bringing this volume (and team of...
aQ Leader
Al Qaeda Is Planning to Fake the Death of Its Dead Leader https://t.co/rEqY5aJwxX via @thedailybeast— Sami Yousafzai (@SamiYousafzaii) January 7, 2023
Uighurs
Michael Dillon, London Review of Books, Somewhere in the Web, Vol. 45 No. 1 路 5 January 2023 This is an excellent article on the Uyghur situation, which also...
Nuṣūṣ
It’ll be interesting to take a look at Nuṣūṣ I’m happy to announce the launch of my project https://t.co/z9kbuBXZpp! It is a corpus of “digitally neglected” texts focusing primarily...
Doomscrolling
BBC Sounds, Why Do We Do That? “Doomscrolling is the act of spending an excessive amount of time on absorbing negative news. Ella Al-Shamahi investigates if we are naturally...
Iran Protests 2023
At the huge Berlin Rally attended by +80,000 Iranians in October, German security authorities noticed that Iranian services were interested in finding out the identity of those involved, head...