topic: ISIS

My Bardo Museum
May 4, 2015
I visited the Bardo Museum in Tunis as a child, dragged by well-meaning adults, returning later as an interested art student. But never did...
Reportage
The Coroner of Aleppo
February 18, 2015
It was the more than one hundred bodies of young men found in the Queiq river nearby in early 2013 that induced former rebel commander Abu...
Opinion
Charlie Hebdo and the Boomerang Effect
January 21, 2015
As a war correspondent, I’ve grown accustomed to vicious acts of terrorism taking the lives of innocent civilians, but this usually happens...
blog
Clicktivism versus the State: How #illridewithyou and other hashtags contribute to a culture of solidarity
December 18, 2014
Compelling critiques on the #illridewithyou hashtag that trended on Twitter after the Sydney cafe siege have flooded the internet over the...
blog
Documenting the Blank: in lieu of ISIL Violence
December 4, 2014
Recent beheadings of foreigners held captive by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have prompted several major media outlets...
blog
A Second Look at Mexican Drug Gangs and ISIL
October 27, 2014
This past week, Al Jazeera America published a piece by Musa al-Gharbi in which the author argues that Mexico’s drug gangs, who have...
Reportage
"Extremists" and "Moderates" in Kobani
October 13, 2014
For nearly a month, fighters from the mainly Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) have kept Islamic State (IS) forces at bay outside...
Kurds in Kobani
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Terrorism Craves an Audience and We are Playing into the Islamic State's Hands by Watching
October 2, 2014
The well-known US security expert, Brian Jenkins, famously declared in 1974, that “ terrorism is theatre ”. And over the last few weeks,...
Reportage
Dirty Entanglements (an excerpt)
September 19, 2014
Editor's Preface My first conversations with Louise Shelley, a professor at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University and the...