Kavita Puri, BBC News, Partition: My journey to the ‘place no-one spoke of’ There's a technological edge to this story: "Seventy-five years ago Sparsh Ahuja's family was one of millions to flee their homes as British India split into two new nations, India and Pakistan. His grandfather ...
Meili Criezis, GNET, Al Qa’ida and Islamic State Supporter Reactions to Zawahiri’s Death, 8 Aug 2022 "This Insight provides a quick overview of al-Qa’ida supporter reactions to Zawahiri’s death followed by a closer focus on pro-IS ...
Claire-Marie Hefner, Morality, religious authority, and the digital edge: Indonesian Muslim schoolgirls online, American Ethnologist, Vol. 0, No. 0, pp. 1–15, ISSN 0094-0496, online, ISSN 1548-1425 "In Indonesian Islamic boarding schools (pesantren), access to digital media is strictly regulated, ...
The National, 'Enough!': Gazans find themselves caught in the crossfire once agagin, 6 Aug 2022 "With empty streets and drawn curtains, Gaza feels like a ghost town. Its residents, tested by repeated wars, feel like ...
Barriers around the Ka'aba have been removed. They were there as pat of COVID restrictions.
Here's a summary of the #alQaeda leader's main deeds in 60 seconds on Sky News. When I refer to his "respectable ...
Old tropes get an airing in the Economist. Check the thread for details.
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Bruno Bayley, Vice, Photos From the Rise and Fall of the Islamic State "Lorenzo Meloni’s new photobook explores the Islamic State’s post-colonial origins, its terrifying ascendence and steep collapse."
Sebastian Usher, BBC News, Tala Safwan: Egyptian TikToker held in Saudi over 'immoral' video, 26 Jul 2022 "Tala Safwan, who has five million followers on TikTok and some 800,000 on YouTube, drew ire online amid claims a recent video had lesbian undertones."
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Mirror, Man who killed student, 21, when she rejected him could be hanged in live TV execution "An Egyptian court appealed to parliament for 21-year-old convicted killer Mohamed Abel to be executed on live TV. It hopes the broadcast will act as a deterrent."