Our research looks at how jihadism has been framed by Western media and digs into the movements’ own textual and visual production, administrative documents, magazines, videos, drawing on archives largely unexplored until now. The aim is to move past the idea of jihadism as one uniform phenomenon, tracing instead its shifts and contradictions across three decades.
Videogames
Call of Duty: Jihad – How the Video Game Motif Has Migrated Downstream from Islamic State Propaganda Videos
From a technical standpoint, Islamic State (IS) videos are demonstrably superior to those of other groups. But as time goes by, their aesthetic is migrating downstream as other groups attempt to copy it. Specifically, IS has turned to video games, regularly mimicking and even directly copying the aesthetic and design of First Person Shooter games, most often Call of Duty, in their videos, and other groups have followed suit. This specific aesthetic offers a way to recruit young, technologically savvy, men while sanitizing the violence they were being recruited to participate in. This study offers an instrument for tracking the IS aesthetic as it moves to other groups as well as its evolution over time, and offers a case study of a specific group that has copied the IS aesthetic, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS.)
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Cinema
Visualizing Jihad: Western Representations of Jihadism in Cinema and Visual Culture (1989-2019)
From the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989 to the death of the Islamic State’s self-proclaimed caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in 2019, jihadism occupied a central and often obsessive place in global geopolitics and the Western imagination. Over the course of these three decades, the figure of the jihadist has become one of the most recurring and recognizable representations of otherness, danger, and political violence in visual and media products. Long before and after 9/11, cinema, television, comics, graphic novels, video games, photography, digital media, and contemporary art have shaped, circulated, and transformed representations of jihadism in various cultural contexts.
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Translation
A Verse Translation of the “Lāmīyah” of Shanfarā
The Ldm&yah of the robber-poet Shanfara is one of the best- known pre-Islamic Arabic poems. The rascally and misanthropic valor that animates it will appeal to anyone but the most effete citizen of the Welfare State.
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A Verse Translation of the “Lāmīyah” of Shanfarā
The Ldm&yah of the robber-poet Shanfara is one of the best- known pre-Islamic Arabic poems. The rascally and misanthropic valor that animates it will appeal to anyone but the most effete citizen of the Welfare State.
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