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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…