IS Update/Analysis
Mina al-Lami, BBC Monitoring, Analysis: IS ignores elephant in the room after leadership change, 7 August 2023 “Islamic State group (IS) has tried to downplay the impact of yet...
Report: al-Shabab and civilians
New and noted: Mohamed Mubarak and Ashley Jackson, ODI, Playing the long game : Exploring the relationship between Al-Shabab and civilians in areas beyond state control, August 2023, PDF “As...
Archiving Article
I wrote a short piece about archiving methodologies in the Digital British Islam project: Gary R. Bunt, Insights, Digital British Islam Project, ‘Starting Points: Initial Methodological Approaches to Archiving...
New and Noted
I haven’t read either of these chapters yet: Abusharif, Ibrahim N., ‘Islam and Digital Religion’, in Heidi A. Campbell, and Pauline Hope Cheong (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Digital...
New & Noted: “Gender Beliefs of Muslim Facebook Users”
This looks interesting: Charles, M., Friedland, R., Afary, J., & Yang, R. (2023). Complicating Patriarchy: Gender Beliefs of Muslim Facebook Users in the Middle East, North Africa, and South...
Digital British Islam – Insights
The Digital British Islam project has launched its Insights series of short articles about aspects of the project, with contributions from Dr Laura Jones, Dr Khadijah Elshayyal and myself.
Leiden
Digitisation of libraries is extremely important. I look forward to a deep dive into Leiden’s online content
TikTok News
Sky News, More young people are using TikTok to access news, research finds, 14 June 2023 “Researchers looked at 93,895 adults in 46 countries and found that more people...