Trump Election
There’s lots to say about this! I’ll stick to the subject area of my channel. Masrat Zahra, Columbia Journalism Review, Dearborn Diaries, 1 Nov 2024, “Media consumption in the...
Smuggler Social Media
Sky News, Iranian man described as ‘the best smuggler’ convicted after helping migrants cross Channel, 8 Nov 2024. “Amanj Hasan Zada, 34, from Preston, advertised on social media and...
KSA AI
There have been significant investments in AI (especially Arabic LLMs) in KSA as Saudi Arabia attempts to position itself as a key tech hub. Google is opening an AI...
Rasmus Paludan Jailed
Miranda Bryant, Guardian, Swedish court jails far-right leader who burned Qur’an, 5 Nov 2024 “Danish politician Rasmus Paludan sentenced to four months for incitement against ethnic group.” I contributed...
Fisk Archive
Holly Evans, Independent, University to set up public archive on work of renowned Independent journalist Robert Fisk, 5 Nov 2024 “Funding of €200,000 (£167,800) has been given to Trinity College...
Apple Indonesia
SCMP, Apple offers Indonesia US$10 million sweetener to reverse its iPhone ban, 5 Nov 2024 “Indonesia’s iPhone ban is an example of the pressure Prabowo Subianto’s government is putting...
Religious Communities in the Virtual Age
I gave a presentation on CHANSE DigitIslam along with Dr Anna Grasso at Recovira’s Religious Communities in the Virtual Age conference in Manchester on 28 Oct 2024. I also...
Samuel Paty Case – Trial
There are online dimensions to this ongoing trial: Hugh Scofield, BBC News, Trial begins over beheading of teacher who showed Prophet Muhammad cartoon, 4 Nov 2024 “Eight people have...
MUSER
MUSER is a timely new research project, which I look forward to tracking: “The MUSER project establishes a major new field of study addressing Muslim responses to the panoply...
X Embed Issue
There is an embed issue with X, which means that embedded content posted here only appears as a URL. I am trying to fix this, but in the meantime,...