by editor | Jul 27, 2010 | Analysis, Europe, Government, Southeast Asia
By Mark Woodward and Inayah Rohmaniyah* Efforts in European countries including France, Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands to restrict or prohibit women from wearing burkah and nikab (face veil) are well known in Indonesia. Reports about these efforts in the...
by Craig Hayden | Jul 21, 2010 | Monitor
I am curious to hear the following statement, made by one of America’s preeminent critics of public diplomacy thinking, clarified a bit more: All too many academic theories about PD are incomprehensible, pompously-expressed “concepts” from persons...
by lundry | Jul 13, 2010 | Indonesia, Islam, Media, Obama, Southeast Asia
by Chris Lundry While in Singapore for the ICA conference with colleagues from the CSC, interesting news kept coming in from Indonesia concerning its ongoing fight against terrorism. It was quite a contrast to what appeared to be the biggest story in Singapore: the...
by Posted by AD Brown | Jul 13, 2010 | Monitor
Sunday, 11 July, as people watched the World Cup finals, twin blasts shook the Ugandan capital city Kampala, killing 74 people. This recent attack on civilians has been blamed on Al-Shabaab, a radical Islamist group increasingly at the center of … Continue...
by furlow | Jul 7, 2010 | Islam, Movements, Politics, Somaila
by R. Bennett Furlow To say Somalia has problems would be the very definition of an understatement. Piracy has certainly received its share of attention, primarily because it is sensational and somewhat easy to comprehend. The chaos in the south also gets some...
