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A great project … The 'tape letters' charting a city's migration stories

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"Uthman ibn Farooq, a Muslim preacher based out of California, has dates scheduled in multiple English cities for his ‘Waking the Dead – Returning from the Darkness’ tour."

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Stephen Nellis, Reuters, ‘Stargate UAE' AI datacenter to begin operation in 2026, 22 May 2025 "The 10-square-mile (26-sq-km) site in Abu Dhabi will eventually host 5 gigawatts worth of data centers." That's a lot of chips. www.reuters.com/business/med...

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Oh. "Microsoft employees have discovered that any emails they send with the terms “Palestine” or “Gaza” are getting temporarily blocked from being sent to recipients inside and outside the company."

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NEW: Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered an exposed database containing 184,162,718 records, which include Apple, Facebook, and Google login credentials for accounts connected to multiple governments. @lhn.bsky.social & @mattburgess1.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/myster...

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This caught my attention on @lbc.co.uk this morning - report by Alan Zycinski: "Speaking to LBC, Anas Sarwar has today branded the party's video promotion running ahead of a Scottish Parliament by-election as "outrageous"."

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"Cyflwynodd yr Athro Gary R. Bunt o Brifysgol Cymru Y Drindod Dewi Sant ganfyddiadau allweddol o’r prosiect ymchwil Digital British Islam mewn digwyddiad arbennig a gynhaliwyd yn Senedd yr Alban."

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AI slop sites investigated here: www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

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Some great photos here …

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"Journalists are alarmed about the potentially wide reach of the law, which allows authorities to imprison social media users for up to three years for spreading disinformation and issue fines of up to 2 million rupees ($7,121 / €6,822)."

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Online pornography crackdown: "Indonesia ranks fourth globally and second in Southeast Asia for cases of child pornography, with about 5.6 million instances recorded over the past four years, according to the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children, a US non-profit organisation."

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UAE AI Arabic model launched: "Falcon Arabic, developed by Abu Dhabi's Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), aims to capture the full linguistic diversity of the Arab world through a "high-quality native (non-translated) Arabic dataset," a statement said." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

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I am pleased that Dr Jamilla Hekmoun's thesis is now available online. I was part of the supervisory team (with Dr Angus Slater) for this significant investigation into issues surrounding Muslim men's mental health. You'll find it here: repository.uwtsd.ac.uk/id/eprint/36...

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Digression: The FT's William Langley has a great article on where stolen iPhones (+) potentially end up — a complex operation. on.ft.com/3Zn9Y2P

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🔴How Wales Became the Target of a Right Wing Culture War Rachel Morris @bylines.cymru on the politicians and media organisations now cynically trying to exploit Wales for their own political gain bylinetimes.com/2025/05/21/w...

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"The number of patients at the Awda malnutrition unit in central Gaza has doubled during the aid blockade. The clinic says it’s two weeks away from running out of life-saving drugs." www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cq...

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Video shows Palestinian children crowding around leftover food in a pot as Israel faces mounting pressure over its months-long aid blockade on Gaza. On Monday, Israel eased the blockade, allowing in limited amounts of food.

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14,000 babies are at risk of dying in the next 48 hours in Gaza if aid doesn’t reach them, warns Tom Fletcher, the UN’s under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs – a figure he called “utterly chilling.” 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/x26ghx

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"Tagging along on Mr. Trump’s state visit to Saudi Arabia last week, Mr. Musk, the world’s wealthiest man, announced that his company SpaceX had secured approval to provide its Starlink satellite internet services to companies there."

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I am sono excited for this event!

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For those needing some positive news today …

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Here’s a report of our recent Digital British Islam report launch at East London Mosque and London Muslim Centre

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This is approaching quickly. The team will present international findings and methodology approaches. I’ll be discussing archiving (in a compressed session ⏰) and chairing a panel comprised @martijn5155.bsky.social, @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social, and Laura Mora.

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Gaza: "trickle of aid" anticipated

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Sporting diversion ...

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"When applied to social networks and extremist forums, gamification turns engagement into competition and hate speech into a playful challenge." Article from @us.theconversation.com Arthur Coelho Bezerra and David Nemer

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This is an important op-ed from Jacob Rees-Mogg and Alf Dubs published in the FT. I also missed it last week. The point made about different political orientations (below) is essential ...

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From Holyrood ... Here’s the video from Digital British Islam’s recent Scottish Parliament Holyrood event sponsored by Foysol Choudhury MSP MBE and presented by me and Prof. Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor. youtu.be/QzLqucOmZFc More information: digitalbritishislam.com/dbi-edinburg...

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If this person sat next to you on a bus or train and started ranting about Bruce Springsteen in this way, you would get up and move to a different seat. In the United States, we have him the nuclear codes.

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Relentless … Nearly 100 people killed in Israeli attack on north Gaza, rescuers say www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Assailant who stabbed author Salman Rushdie sentenced to 25 years reut.rs/3S84t4d

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Pegasus spyware against 1,400 WhatsApp users. ‘Pegasus, which grants near-total access to a target’s device, including microphones, cameras and encrypted messages, was used against journalists, human rights defenders and political dissidents.’

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Trump is a actually an easy mark for foreign governments. Giving the plane to Trump would be “a creative disposal strategy” that marks “a farewell to a bygone model of geopolitical theater in the skies.” www.forbes.com/sites/jeremy...

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Interesting first episode from @amanpourpod.bsky.social with plenty of insights/background from Christiane and Jamie.

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from @skynewsrss.bsky.social

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India X blocks ...

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A bit of football news from Iran and a championship win (with significance beyond the game):

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One for today’s Reading List …

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Scared and malnourished - footage from Gaza shows plight of children and aftermath of Israeli strike www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Andrew Marr @lbc.co.uk provided an excellent segment on the Gaza crisis. It’s from the start of the programme. www.globalplayer.com/catchup/lbc/...

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Pragmatic and humane. Spain’s approach shows how small Starmer is

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My grandmas were immigrants, my mum & sisters in law are immigrants; my sister & nephews are migrants. My kids study maths, Shakespeare, dance, act & score tries alongside the kids of immigrants. My dad’s life was saved by immigrants. Immigrants have made us richer, wiser, stronger Win the fight

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Image of library book display labeled: “It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.” Books on display: • On Tyranny • Twenty Lessons From The 21st Century • 1984 • A Handmaids Tale • Diary of Anne Frank • Parable of The Sower • Fahrenheit 451 • Animal Farm • Brave New World ~TAiLS of a Bookworm

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'It is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow-members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion.' Benedict Anderson on why all nations are communities of strangers.

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President Trump has arrived in Riyadh, kicking off a Gulf tour aimed at securing major investments and resetting regional ties. In Saudi Arabia, he’s seeking a $1 trillion deal with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and facing criticism over a luxury jet offered by Qatar.

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"The Committee to Protect Journalists condemned the strike.It said Aslih had worked for international media outlets until 2023, when the pro-Israeli watchdog HonestReporting published a photo of him being kissed by then-Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar."

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I'm sensing a theme here today:

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Oh. "Elon Musk's warm welcome by Saudi royals is at odds with his ownership of X, whose users are imprisoned for criticising Riyadh."

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"A British man jailed for 10 years in Saudi Arabia, reportedly over a tweet he wrote seven years ago, has done nothing wrong and is being failed by the UK, his family have said."

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