I came across this fascinating (and horrifying) article by Ellie Hall yesterday on the “women of ISIS,” many of whom are foreigners who have traveled from “Western” countries to join the fighters in Syria. The piece is worth a read, but I was particularly struck by the first paragraph, in which—for the first time, I […]
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Jerusalem as anomaly
Perhaps you remember last year when I discovered that, if you Google “What time is it in Ramallah?”, Google would serve up one of their weird little “boxes” that claimed Ramallah was part of Israel. I let a friend at Google know, and within a week, the problem was fixed…and for awhile, a search for […]
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An Interview with Bassem Youssef
I just got around to watching this in the course of a book chapter I’m writing on participatory media in the Middle East, but it’s absolutely still worth a watch. Choice quote: “We did all of this for the sake of a different media, a media that respected people’s minds and intelligence and at the […]