The French term for ISIS – known as Da'ish or Daesh – has gathered more interest in the wake of the Paris attacks. Here’s why this battle of naming matters.
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The terrorists haven’t attacked us because of our colour or religion, they want to destroy our way of life.
The answer is complex. But part of it lies in the fact that French society is still uncomfortable with its diversity.
A Muslim scholar proposes the discussion of an alternative interpretation of Sharia that will challenge ISIS’ claims to Islamic legitimacy.
In the next few weeks we may see a resurgence of rhetoric calling for more resources to fight the War on Terror following the Paris attacks. Islamophobia may take deeper root in Europe as a whole.
The Paris attacks were a ghastly media spectacular. What will be the broader historical significance in Europe and further afield?
Under pressure in the Middle East, ISIS is turning to terrorism in Europe with a new set of predictable goals.
US and UK claim the man who bragged about decapitating western hostages has probably been killed in an airstrike.
Russia’s stepped-up role in Syria is likely to bolster Iran and the anti-Western opposition in Iraq.
Globalization first became a bedrock of our vocabulary in the 1990s in the aftermath of the Cold War. Proponents of globalization then argued that everything would change – and for the better. There would…
Apart from numerous worldwide threats including from China, Iran, North Korea and Russia, the US is taking more notice of Africa due to the expansion of extremist organisations on the continent.
Syrian refugees have key assets and life stories that can contribute to the long, but necessary, struggle to end violence in the Middle East.
A planned US drone strike program in Syria will waste life, political capital and resources.
There is a muscular, tattooed man holding a machine gun. He is in front of an expensive sports car, with gold chains around his neck and what looks like a Rolex on his wrist. The man is standing proudly…
Khaled al-Asaad was a world renowned scholar before his death at the hands of Islamic State.
Barely a week after ISIS beheaded Khaled al-Asaad, the Syrian expert who devoted his life to the study of Palmyra, the group is reported to have destroyed a nearly 2,000-year-old temple dedicated to Baalshamin…
The recent revelations about the savage treatment of Yazidi women at the hands of Islamic State, or ISIS, fighters is the latest in a shocking set of disclosures regarding the group’s behavior. It sadly…
A suicide bombing in Turkey last week has pulled Ankara closer to the US in the fight against ISIS. It has also raised concerns about Kurds who are also being targeted by Turkish bombing raids.
Militants are tapping into centuries-old literary tastes, appropriating them for their own nefarious ends.
Digital media and the model of “leaderless resistance” enhance the threat by the Islamic State here at home.
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Professor in The Division of Global Affairs and The Department of Political Science, Rutgers University - Newark
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Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Clemson University
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Research Fellow in Counterterrorism, George Washington University
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Professor of Peace Studies, University of Bradford
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Adjunct Professor at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University
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Lecturer in Political Economy of Violence, Conflict and Development, SOAS, University of London
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Professor of Islamic History, UMass Dartmouth
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Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Public Policy and Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Institute, UMass Amherst
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Researcher, Centre for Peace and Security Studies, Modibbo Adama University of Technology
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Research Fellow at the Program on Extremism, George Washington University
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Associate professor in Politics and International Relations, Leeds Beckett University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, University of California, Los Angeles
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Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Criminology and Sociology, Middlesex University