by Charles Cameron | Mar 2, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — Hamid & Farrall, Stern & Berger, full reviews coming up shortly ] . ** I recently received a review copy of Mustafa Hamid & Leah Farrall‘s breakthrough book, The Arabs at War in Afghanistan, courtesy of the publisher,...
by Charles Cameron | Oct 24, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — we’ve ignored the apocalyptic aspect of Khorasan for years, now we’re admitting it, but still overlooking the second prong ] . ** Introducing the first English language issue of Ihya-e-Khilafat — which is in effect a new...
by Charles Cameron | Aug 13, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — in which the muj from Khorasan talk even more about the erasing of national boundaries than the soldiers of the IS caliphate ] . Before there were maps, there was terrain, some of it populated, and various populations spoke various...
by Charles Cameron | Aug 5, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — of the Temple Mount and Noble Sanctuary, by way of Bamiyan and Timbuktu, the Cordoba Mezquita and Cathedral ] . The Temple Mount / Noble Sanctuary, then and now ** Today as I write this, it is Tisha b’Av — the day on which the...
by Cole Bunzel | Jul 23, 2014 | Monitor
The Islamic State’s June 29 declaration of a caliphate has yet to win mass support among the global jihadi community but it has succeeded in provoking an embattled al-Qaeda leadership to respond—in unforeseen fashion. Rather than immediately denouncing the Islamic...
