Egypt and Animal Welfare
Alice Bennett, Grunge, The Real Reason there are so many Stray Dogs in Egypt, 6 Aug 2023 There is a positive social media edge to this story. “Egypt’s highest...
Seyyed Javad Alavi Boroujerdi
Middle East Eye, Iran: The new grand ayatollah upsetting the establishment, 30 July 2023 “Seyyed Javad Alavi Boroujerdi, a 72-year-old cleric, has expressed support for minority rights and Mahsa...
Cloned Voices
There are going to be some interesting religious decisions that will have to be made once this launches:
‘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...
Reading the digital Qur’an
About Islam, Does Reading Quran on Phone Count?, 6 June 2023 “Reciting the Noble Quran is greatly rewarded by Allah Almighty. This reward applies whether a Muslim recites the Quran from a written copy (Mushaf)...
Molavi Abdolhamid
Yaghoub Fazeli, Al Arabiya English, Iran’s top Sunni cleric says barred from Hajj by Iranian authorities, 14 June 2023 “Molavi Abdolhamid had planned to undertake the Hajj pilgrimage this...
Indonesian Influencer Issue
Aisyah Llewellyn, Rest of World, An influencer in Indonesia could go to jail for trying pork on TikTok “One week, 13 million views, and scores of angry comments later,...