by halverson | Feb 4, 2011 | Egypt, Government, Islam, Muslim Brotherhood, Politics, Religion, Sharia
by Jeffry R. Halverson There are a lot of questions and speculation about the Ikhwan al-Muslimun (The Muslim Brotherhood, or MB) and their role in the future of Egypt. The coverage of the organization in the U.S. media has been better than expected. However, I am...
by editor | Jan 31, 2011 | Analysis, Egypt, Government, Indonesia
by Mark Woodward More than a decade ago hundreds of thousands of Indonesians, most of them young people, came to the streets demanding the end to a dictatorial regime that had lasted for more than three decades. Today we see much the same in Egypt. We see also see the...
by halverson | Jan 31, 2011 | Analysis, Diplomacy, Egypt, Framing, Government, Media, Muslim Brotherhood, Narrative
by Jeffry R. Halverson Events rapidly accelerated in Egypt on Friday, January 28, as expected. On Thursday night, the regime shut down internet access. This startling graphic by Craig Labovitz shows the precipitous drop in online traffic. Over the course of the day,...
by halverson | Jan 28, 2011 | Analysis, Egypt, Framing, Government, Muslim Brotherhood, Narrative
by Jeffry R. Halverson The protests in Egypt that began on January 25 are the culmination of a long simmering struggle between the police state of Hosni Mubarak and the common people it seeks to control. The state claims that its longstanding “security measures”...
by editor | Oct 7, 2010 | Analysis, Government, Iran, Islam, Narrative
by Steven R. Corman The CSC has released a new white paper by Jeffry Halverson entitled A Counter-Narrative for Iranian Tyranny. The executive summary is below, and you can find the full paper here. The ruling regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran is increasingly...
by editor | Sep 10, 2010 | Analysis, Diplomacy, Framing, Government, Image, Islam, Media, Narrative, Obama, Religion, Sensemaking, State Dept., Strategic Comm.
by Steven R. Corman, Jeffry R. Halverson, and Chris Lundry This series has examined the reaction, mostly in mainstream news sources of foreign Muslim societies, to the recent surge in anti-Islam events in the United States. Part I focused on the Park51 (or Cordoba...