Professor of Religion and Global Security, RCAST Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo. Islam & the Middle East studies.
Description of my 2015 book on ISIS, which made an accidental and unfortunate blockbuster in Japan, caught in the middle of the political controversy surrounding the hostage crisis in Syria.
Full room listening to Nasrallah’s speech in #Dahiye ; “Ya Allah, ya Allah, ya Allah, ya Nasrallah!” They chant, fists in air, as the #Hezbollah leader starts to speak #بيروت
reveals that the rise in immigration to Israel is due almost entirely to Russian and Ukrainian immigrants not even regarded Jewish by Israeli authorities
More fragments of Franz Kafka's literary estate have reached the National Library in Jerusalem, including a notebook and letters (signed with his Jewish name, Anshel), he wrote in Hebrew. By
“The safe zones in Syria are the most peaceful and livable places in the country today.”
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the safe zones established by Turkey in Syria
While there’s reasonable cause for celebration of the death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, “the threat of the Islamic State will remain as long as the world fails to address why it arose in the first place.”
The U.S. military has dispatched an elite cyber team to Montenegro to protect networks and study the tactics of adversaries like Russia, ahead of national elections next year.
Breaking: The senior cleric in #Iraq Ali #Sistani warns the Govt against the use of violence by combat forces or others against the demonstrators during current #IraqProtests.
He slso said: "That not allowed to any regional or international side impose its opinion on Iraqis"