by halverson | Feb 21, 2011 | Egypt, Iran, Narrative, Politics
by Jeffry R. Halverson and Steven R. Corman Recent events in Egypt have led some quarters to suggest we are witnessing a case parallel to the 1979 revolution in Iran. Back then, the fall of the Shah left a political vacuum that allowed religious hardliners to take...
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 | Oct 27, 2010 | Analysis, Framing, Image, Politics, Popular Culture, Sensemaking, Strategic Comm.
by Lisa Braverman A couple of weeks ago as I skimmed the news, I saw the freshly-released images of the Park51 Community Center (colloquially known as the “Ground Zero Mosque”). In the same sitting, I also performed my semi-regular check of a former professor’s...
by editor | Sep 9, 2010 | Analysis, Framing, Image, Islam, Politics
by Steven R. Corman, Jeffry R. Halverson, and Chris Lundry So far in this series we have looked at two high-profile anti-Muslim incidents in the U.S. Part I focused on the Park51 project, the so-called Ground Zero Mosque. In part II we looked at the controversy...
by editor | Sep 8, 2010 | Analysis, Image, Indonesia, Islam, Media, Narrative, Politics, Religion, Southeast Asia
by Steven R. Corman, Jeffry R. Halverson, and Chris Lundry This is the second of a four-part series of posts on foreign reactions to recent anti-Muslim rhetoric in the U.S. In Part I we looked at the Park51 project, also known as the “Ground Zero Mosque,”...
by editor | Sep 7, 2010 | Analysis, Image, Islam, Media, Politics
by Steven R. Corman, Jeffry R. Halverson, and Chris Lundry Recent weeks have seen an uptick in anti-Muslim events and associated rhetoric in the U.S. Controversies include: The Park51 project in New York, popularly known as the “Ground Zero Mosque” The...