Digital Islam Across Europe
The website for the CHANSE-funded Digital Islam Across Europe project is now ‘live’. I’m a Co-Investigator on the project.
AI & War crimes evidence
BBC News, AI: War crimes evidence erased by social media platforms, 31 May 2023 “Platforms remove graphic videos, often using artificial intelligence – but footage that may help prosecutions...
KSA Crackdown
Middle East Eye, Saudi woman sentenced to 30 years over tweets, as crackdown deepens, 1 June 2023 “A Saudi woman...
ChatGPT and Languages
Paresh Dave, Wired, ChatGPT Is Cutting Non-English Languages Out of the AI Revolution, 31 May 2023 “Fung would like to see AI change that, not further reinforce the primacy...
Bradford 12 Documentary
BBC World Service, Bradford 12: The Asian youth who took on the racists, part 1 “As a Pakistani immigrant teenager in 1970s Britain, Tariq Mehmood endured homelessness and years...
Iran: Journalist on Trial
Arab News, Iran starts trial of female journalist who covered Amini’s death, 30 May 2023, “...
Orkesh Centre
AP/The National, Teenagers from ISIS families undergoing rehab in Syria’s Al Hol camp, 30 May 2023, “Fearing that a new generation of militants will emerge from Al Hol camp, the...
Najiaying Mosque
Nectar Gan, CNN, Thousands of ethnic minority Muslims defy Chinese authorities in defense of mosque, 30 May 2023 “The architectural overhaul of mosques has come with allegations of shrinking...
Erdogan Victory Analysed
Nicholas Danforth, Byline Times, A Fetih Accompli: How Erdogan Married Religion and Nationalism, 28 May 2023. “Erdogan has a particular flair for mixing and matching political symbols. He has...
Erdogan Victory
Independent, Erdogan rants against ‘LGBT forces’ as Biden congratulates him on Turkey election win, 29 May 2023 “Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan celebrated his presidential run-off victory on Monday after an...