Virtually Islamic

I discuss Islam-friendly apps and browsers in 'Hashtag Islam', and here's a new option: The Star Online, Syariah compliant web b...

9News, The secretive IT unit helping Islamic State supporters hide in dark corners of Internet, 24 Sep 2018  "Afaq's purpose is to ...

Nikita Malik, Forbes.com, Why Do We Underestimate The Role Of Women In Terrorist Organizations?, 26 Sep 2018 "It is important to remem...

Review of 'One Day in the Haram': Leslie Felperin, Guardian, One Day in the Haram review – a fascinating glimpse inside Islam'...

Guardian, Lucy Lamble, Small Changes, The Mosul historian who risked his life to blog about life under Isis – podcast, 26 Sep 2018 "Wh...

I'm now blogging on the virtuallyislamic.com website, but will continue to place summarised posts here too. 

Contesting identities within cultural insecurity 14/09/18 12:32 Filed in: Research | Gender Currently taking a look at this interesti...

Hashtag Islam - print version I'm very pleased to have received my first printed copy of 'Hashtag Islam'. It's been grea...

Knut Lundby (editor), Contesting Religion: The Media Dynamics of Cultural Conflicts in Scandinavia, De Gruyter Another one for the Reading...

Observer, Shahira Yusuf: 'I have always felt beautiful', 2 Sep 2018 "It was just before the 2016 referendum, as she became aw...

BBC News, Extremists exploiting small social media websites, experts warn, 1 Sep 2018 "The likes of Facebook and Twitter have responde...

Hashtag Islam can be obtained through all the usual channels in Australia and New Zealand, including through Footprint Books. Their October ...

Publishers Weekly, Nonfiction Review, Hashtag Islam: How Cyber- Islamic Environments Are Transforming Religious Authority " ... by in...

Hannah Fry, Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine, Penguin Books Another one for the Reading list (helped by her TV docum...

It's been interesting to review the output of CIC Saudi Arabia on Twitter during Hajj 2018, presenting human stories within the hajj.  S...

Interesting review of Peter W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking's book 'LikeWar: How Social Media Became The Locus Of 21st Century Wa...

CJ Werleman, Middle East Eye, How Russia is trying to erase Tatar Muslims Analysis/opinion.

The Times, Dina Torkia interview: the Muslim fashion blogger talks Boris Johnson and burkas Profile of Dina Torkia, high profile fashionis...

albawaba, Manufacturing Consent: Saudi and Amazon Deploy Twitter Bots to Insist They Are Virtuous Allegations.

Seán McLoughlin, The Conversation, Hajj: how globalisation transformed the market for pilgrimage to Mecca, 15 Aug 2018