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...
Majidreza Rahnavard
A viral video shows executed Iranian protester Majidreza Rahnavard apparently saying his last words blindfolded before being executed. He says he’s written in his will he doesn’t want anyone...
Iran TikTok
Whitney Shylee May, The Conversation, Iranian protesters turn to TikTok to get their message past government censors “One effective method the protesters have hit on has been to use...
Iran-net
“The Islamic Republic’s restriction of Iranian people’s access to internet is a violation of int’l human rights law that enables the regime to continue committing atrocities with full impunity,”...
ChatGPT
This is an interesting discussion on ChatGPT – which I have been investigating in relation to #Islam issues (findings to follow in due course) Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, Five...
IS
Mail Online, Brother faces jail for sharing ISIS-supporting propaganda as his sibling is cleared of terror charges “One brother is facing jail while another was cleared of sharing Islamic...
AI Iran
Sam Biddle, The Intercept, ‘The Internet’s New Favorite AI Proposes Torturing Iranians and Surveilling Mosques’, 8 Dec 2022 “And after gorging itself on an unfathomably vast training diet of...