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Motherboard/Vice, How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps. 16 Nov 2020
"The U.S. military is buying the granular movement data of people around the world, harvested from innocuous-seeming apps, Motherboard has learned. The most popular ...
"Job advertisements for Islamic studies faculty positions provide material and significant insight into the construction and reification of a normative Islam. ...
I will be participating in this event, on 26th November 2020. Check the link for details and registration.
Asharq Al-Awsat, Israeli Operatives Killed Qaeda’s No. 2 Leader in Iran in August
"Al-Qaeda’s second-in-command, accused of helping to mastermind the 1998 bombings of two US embassies in Africa, was killed in Iran ...
Arab News, Half of Saudi consumers shop online at least every week
"Online shopping has boomed this year as pandemic-related lockdowns have closed shops. Now some online retailers fear delays in the run up to the busy year-end festive period as delivery companies become overloaded." [See Arab News' infographic ...
Currently listening to Intrigue: Mayday on James Le Mesurier. Plenty on social media issues in this podcast series, focusing on the White Helmets. Episode 5 is particularly interesting if you research on areas associated with jihad and ...
Arab News, Saudi's Telfaz11 inks Netflix deal to produce eight new films
"Netflix, the global entertainment service, and Saudi Arabian production and financing group Telfaz11 have struck a partnership to produce eight new films, with the first project coming to life in late 2021."
Forthcoming publication: Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir, Representing Islam: Hip-Hop of the September 11 Generation, Indiana University Press
"In Representing Islam, Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir explores the tension ...