Center for Strategic Communication

Recruitment, poetry and tears

[ by Charles Cameron — Hegghammer on testing and trusting as precursors to AQ recuitment ] . I’ve been having trouble finding any of the anasheed Ibn Siqilli was posting on his site, many of which have been taken down — but this one, found in a...

The Battle of Algiers / Black Friday koan

[ by Charles Cameron — a tale of two films, two conflicts, two cities ] . Are these two positions — take one side, take both sides — reconcilable? That’s the koan, the paradox that’s facing me, after seeing two terrific films by these two directors...

Review: Poetry of the Taliban

[ by Charles Cameron — poetry, humanity, dehumanizing, enmity and amity, image and likeness ] . I wrote this review-essay for Books & Culture: A Christian Review — the book review site associated with Christianity Today — where it was published...