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An online publication of the AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University

Media and terrorism

The Legend of Korra’s Zaheer and the Dark Fantasies of the War on Terror

By Sawyer Martin French  //  September 11, 2020September 11, 2020

Avatar: the Last Airbender (ATLA) is an artfully woven story in which victims of genocide and imperialism unite to fight against a global empire. But in the sequel series, The Legend of Korra (TLOK), which…

Framing the Genocide of Bosniak Muslims as ”War on Terror”

By Harun Karčić  //  July 9, 2020July 9, 2020

The Al-Qaeda boogeyman in Bosnia ”10.000 mujahedeen in Bosnia and Herzegovina ready for a new Jihad.” This is how the headline of an article read in a leading Bosnian Serb newspaper in January 2019. It…

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