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 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 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...
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 goodall | Sep 1, 2010 | Afghanistan, Analysis, Framing, Iraq, Narrative, Obama, Politics
by Bud Goodall President Obama’s speech from the Oval Office last night announced the end of combat operations in Iraq. The speech was largely driven by his choice of a defining metaphor: “We have sent our young men and women to make enormous sacrifices in...
by halverson | Aug 18, 2010 | Analysis, Framing, Image, Islam, Narrative, Obama
by Jeffry R. Halverson In the aftermath of the September 11th attacks, Indian novelist and activist Arundhati Roy wrote an opinion piece in the British daily The Guardian, stating: [Bin Laden] has been sculpted from the spare rib of a world laid to waste by American...