CAIRO (special correspondent):Islamic Research Foundation Cairo organised a Webinar last week, on the topic of the US-China Trade and Media war, especially its new Xinjiang-related bill. Scholars from Al-Azhar University Egypt, Nanjing University China and RMIT University, Australia participated in Webinar. Scholars from Al-Azhar University shed light on the history of Muslims in China. It...
By Dr Majid Khan Nathan Roger argues in his book Image Warfare in War on Terror that the mass media system has been shifted to a rhizomatic (grows horizontally under the ground) media system. That system relates to deterritorialized (take the control of) circulations and weaponization of images and this has resulted the paradigm shift...
By Dr Majid Khan Since the West started colonization the other regions of the world, literary work from Western writers also came out however, in such books the people of the East were depicted as downgraded or subhuman. Edward Said, a Palestinian intellectual, literary theorist, and historian of the colonial narrative – said explained how...
By Dr Majid Khan Dr Mughees Sheikh writes in his doctoral thesis, “After the end of the Cold War, Islam will be an eminent ‘threat candidate’ for the US media”. Mughees Sheikh’s findings in 1992 did predict the inception of a socio-political and media discourse that we now call Islamophobia. But Islamophobia comes into the...
Cairo (By Special correspondent): In a webinar organised by Islamic Research Complex, Cairo (Egypt) different scholars from the Muslim world expressed grave concern about converting poor African Muslims to Christianity. Scholars argued that its alarming for the whole Muslim nation that such practice is being done. Leading scholars of the Muslim world including, Dr Yasser...