Center for Strategic Communication

Jottings 9: Boko / Beaucoup Haram

[ by Charles Cameron — who just can’t resist a skilled bilingual pun, and is also curious these days about terrorist logos & branding ] . Hamas logo, left, and putative Boko Haram logo, right, compared ** I found my delicious multilingual pun in a...

Gaza: Winners and Losers?

The Internet is abuzz with theorizing about who won and lost the short Israel-Hamas duel in Gaza. Unfortunately, the standards by which victory and defeat is tallied are fairly impressionistic. How else to explain the fact that so many actors have both won and lost in...

Gaza negotiations: sincerity and symmetry

[ by Charles Cameron — sincerity and symmetry as the basis for dialog and negotiation ] . . If you read me regularly, you know I’m passionate about form as well as content. Here’s the New York Times report on the interactions between Presidents Obama...