Center for Strategic Communication

Youssef Rakha on ISIS, Hollywood, Islam

by | May 25, 2015 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — stumbling across a new writer, and taking both note and notes ] . I recently came across the Egyptian writer Youssef Rakha. He asked me to “add him to my network” on LinkedIn, I checked his profile out and discovered he was a...

Browsing in bin Laden’s library II

by | May 21, 2015 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — following up on Browsing in bin Laden’s library ] . Marcy Wheeler at Salon reports of the ODNI’s Bin Laden’s Bookshelf (expanded form, .pdf) that “the categorization imposed by ODNI” consists “largely of...

The road to Samarra

by | Mar 6, 2015 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — parroting Somerset Maugham in the context of suicide ops ] . The story [lower panel] is Somerset Maugham‘s version of the tale.. ** No news from Samarra since Feb 28th, when Radio Free Europe reported: IS Militants Attack Samarra...

Turner and Touchstone

by | Aug 8, 2014 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — Shakespeare and the Shakespearean professor on argumentation and lies, then and now ] . Frederick Turner, left, Peter Frechette as Touchstone, Oregon Shakespeare festival 2012, right ** Touchstone, in As You Like It, Act V scene 4:...