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Over at Sahel Blog, Alex Thurston has a typically excellent piece rebutting Sebastian Elischer’s arguments about Islam in Mali, particularly Elischer’s characterizations of Salafism in the co...

https://thewasat.wordpress.com/2015/12/24/how-we-talk-about-islam-in-mali-and-beyond/

I’ll admit it, sometimes I’m a sucker for the kind of pop culture hot takes that are sucking up an increasing amount of social media oxygen. These have taken a particularly intense turn with ...

https://thewasat.wordpress.com/2015/11/27/may-the-force-of-history-be-with-you/

This post will be part personal update, part promotional entry, and part reflection on the past few years and resurrecting a dormant blog. When I started al-Wasat with my good friend Aaron Zelin,...

https://thewasat.wordpress.com/2015/11/24/updates-reflections-and-a-few-new-articles/

-Christopher Anzalone (McGill University) ________________________________________________________ See a 3-part photo essay on the late Tehrik-i Taliban Pakistan leader Hakimullah Mehsud: Part 1 ...

https://thewasat.wordpress.com/2013/11/05/in-pictures-faces-of-the-tehrik-i-taliban-pakistan/

-Christopher Anzalone (McGill University) ________________________________________________________ See Part 1 of this photo essay HERE. See Part 2 of this photo essay HERE. Hakimullah Mehsud with...

https://thewasat.wordpress.com/2013/11/04/in-pictures-tehrik-i-taliban-pakistans-late-leader-hakimullah-mehsud-part-3/

-Christopher Anzalone (McGill University) ________________________________________________________ See Part 1 of this photo essay HERE. Hakimullah Mehsud with Waliur Rahman Mehsud, the late deput...

https://thewasat.wordpress.com/2013/11/02/in-pictures-tehrik-i-taliban-pakistan-leader-hakimullah-mehsud-part-2/

-Christopher Anzalone (McGill University) ________________________________________________________ See Part 2 of this photo essay HERE. Hakimullah Mehsud with Abu Zarr al-Pakistani (Abu Zarr al-B...

https://thewasat.wordpress.com/2013/11/01/in-pictures-tehrik-i-taliban-pakistan-leader-hakimullah-mehsud-part-1/

Tonight it was reported by Express FM that Shaykh al-Khatib al-Idrisi was arrested in Sidi Ali Ben Aoun (in the governorate of Sidi Bouzid), where there has been recent violence in the past cou...

https://thewasat.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/who-is-tunisias-salafi-cleric-shaykh-al-khatib-al-idrissi/

____________________________________________________________ -Christopher Anzalone (McGill University) Other  photo essays on the Somali jihadi-insurgent movement Harakat al-Shabab al-Mujahideen...

https://thewasat.wordpress.com/2013/10/16/in-pictures-somalias-harakat-al-shabab-al-mujahideen-part-9-military-forces-rally-in-buulobarde-hiraan-region/

Al-Shabab’s official spokesman, ‘Ali Rage (‘Ali Dheere) ____________________________________________________________ -Christopher Anzalone (McGill University) Other  photo essays on the So...

https://thewasat.wordpress.com/2013/10/15/in-pictures-somalias-harakat-al-shabab-al-mujahideen-part-8-defiance-in-baraawe-for-eid-al-adha/