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 goodall | Jan 29, 2011 | Analysis, Diplomacy, Egypt, Framing, Identification, Islam, Israel, Media, Narrative, Obama, Religion, Sensemaking, State Dept., technology
by Bud Goodall The Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia last week beget further democracy uprisings in Egypt and Yemen this week, as well as protests in Jordan and Mauritania. If the protesters are finally successful in Egypt and President Hosni Mubarak is forced out, this...
by editor | Jan 4, 2011 | Identification, Religion, Research, Strategic Comm.
by Steven R. Corman CSC researchers Pauline Cheong and Jeff Halverson have just published a paper in the journal Studies in Conflict and Terrorism that will be of interest to readers of this blog. The paper examines al Qaeda texts from 1996-2009 to determine...
by editor | Oct 24, 2010 | Education, Indonesia, Islam, Religion, Southeast Asia
by Steven R. Corman Readers of this blog will be interested in an article by Mark Woodward (a frequent contributor to this blog) and his colleagues Inayah Rohmaniyah, Ali Amin and Diana Coleman in the most recent issue of Perspectives on Terrorism. The paper, based...
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 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,”...