scholarly journals Terrorist Attacks on the Energy Sector as a Strategy of Al Qaeda in the Middle East and North Africa

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-82
Author(s):  
Lukáš Tichý
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Energy Sector ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Al Qaeda

scholarly journals Madrasah Education System And Terrorism: Reality And Misconception

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Mohd Izzat Amsyar Mohd Arif ◽  
Nur Hartini Abdul Rahman ◽  
Hisham Hanapi
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Education System ◽  
September 11 ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Al Qaeda ◽  
Religious Schools ◽  
East Central ◽  
Educational Infrastructure ◽  
Islamic Schools

Since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the Islamic schools known as madrasah havebeen of increasing interest to analysts and to officials involved in formulating U.S. foreign policytoward the Middle East, Central, and Southeast Asia. Madrasah drew added attention when itbecame known that several Taliban leaders and Al-Qaeda members had developed radicalpolitical views at madrasah in Pakistan, some of which allegedly were built and partially financedthrough Saudi Arabian sources. These revelations have led to accusations that madrasah promoteIslamic extremism and militancy, and are a recruiting ground for terrorism. Others maintain thatmost of these religious schools have been blamed unfairly for fostering anti-U.S. sentiments andargue that madrasah play an important role in countries where millions of Muslims live in povertyand the educational infrastructure is in decay. This paper aims to study a misconception of therole and functions of Islamic traditional religious schools which have been linked with theactivities of terrorism. The study will be specifically focus on practice of the traditional Islamicschool, which is locally called as ‘madrasah system’.

Press Propaganda and Subaltern Agents of Pan-Islamic Networks in the Muslim Mediterranean World prior to World War I

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Odile Moreau
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
World War I ◽  
North Africa ◽  
World War ◽  
Subaltern Studies ◽  
Resistance Movements ◽  
The Press ◽  
Mediterranean World ◽  
History Of

This chapter explores movement and circulation across the Mediterranean and seeks to contribute to a history of proto-nationalism in the Maghrib and the Middle East at a particular moment prior to World War I. The discussion is particularly concerned with the interface of two Mediterranean spaces: the Middle East (Egypt, Ottoman Empire) and North Africa (Morocco), where the latter is viewed as a case study where resistance movements sought external allies as a way of compensating for their internal weakness. Applying methods developed by Subaltern Studies, and linking macro-historical approaches, namely of a translocal movement in the Muslim Mediterranean, it explores how the Egypt-based society, al-Ittihad al-Maghribi, through its agent, Aref Taher, used the press as an instrument for political propaganda, promoting its Pan-Islamic programme and its goal of uniting North Africa.

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