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The Facebook logo is pictured at the Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California January 29, 2013. (REUTERS/Robert Galbraith)

Debate: Social media allows radical Islamism to spread

by Dr. Nadim Mansouri | Jan 14, 2014 | Debate

New media tools have evolved into diverse online forms, contributing to a stronger feeling of unity across the Muslim world. Islamist movements have diversified into various orders, such as the Salafists, the Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Qaeda and Hizb ut-Tahrir, which all...

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FILE – In this Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011, file photo, a Facebook User Operations Safety Team worker looks at reviews at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

Debate: Social media can help curb radical Islamists

by Abdelnabi Abdel-Sattar | Jan 14, 2014 | Debate

Social media platforms can play an influential role in curbing political Islam, especially if we look at the number of Facebook users in the Middle East—fifty-six million—and how they represent the most conscious and influential sectors of society. We must also keep...

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People walk in front of defected posters of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi and Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie in downtown Cairo August 29, 2013. (REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh)

Opinion: The Post-Islamist Era

by Ali Ibrahim | Oct 22, 2013 | Opinion

Over the past four decades or more, the issue of political Islam, in all its forms—from the Muslim Brotherhood to its extremist offshoots and literature—has been a fertile topic for Arab and Western academics and scholars. Theses specialists—along with entire research...

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AFP reporter Sammy Ketz, hits the ground as a Syrian soldier runs past during sniper fire in the ancient Christian Syrian town of Maalula, on September 18, 2013. (AFP PHOTO/ANWAR AMRO)

Syria: The Journalists’ Graveyard

by Caroline Akoum | Oct 18, 2013 | Media

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—Syria has become a Journalists’ Graveyard as the bloody civil war between the Assad regime and the Syrian rebels rages on with seemingly no end in sight. It has become increasingly difficult for journalists to even enter Syria, while...

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Abu Khalid (centre) with the Euphrates Knights. (Asharq Al-Awsat/Hannah Lucinda Smith)

The Backlash Begins

by Hannah Lucinda Smith | Aug 30, 2013 | Features

Menbej, Asharq Al-Awsat—It should have been a day for celebration in Menbej. In late July, the small town in the north of Aleppo province marked a year of freedom from the regime of Bashar Al-Assad—a year of “liberation,” in the language of the opposition. In July...