Center for Strategic Communication

Yezidis / Yazidis: first gleanings

by | Aug 8, 2014 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — piecing together some background on a remarkable and requently misunderstood faith ] . ** Philip Kreyenbroek opens his book, Yezidism: its background, observances & textual tradition, with the words: There is probably no factor that...

Balancing acts & mirror images: 2

by | Aug 1, 2014 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — second of (at least) three posts, mostly about Gaza — high wire stuff ] . Here are two young women poets, the hope of the world, mirroring one another in a rare balancing act that leaves neither political / military side of the...

Pattern: There is no X without Y

by | Jun 21, 2014 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — a DoubleQuote in two YouTube videos ] . Today I’ll offer two YouTube videos that beg to be considered together — or at least, I think they do. Why? because they each suggest an “essential ingedient” in life, and...

Awlaqi died before ISIS was born, yet…

by | Jun 19, 2014 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — an eerily prescient video? ] . The title of this recent video, Sheikh Anwar Awlaki Speaking about The Islamic State of Iraq and Al Sham ISIS, is anachronistic — yet al-Awlaqi‘s topic has strong relevance today: . In my view,...