In class this week we talked a lot about poverty which lead to discussing the causing factors and repercussions, such as the type of political party to food insecurity. While addressing these issues we were asked what would be some ways in which we believe could help alleviate some of these problems and I think […]

Will Censorship Ever End? Censorship here in the U.S continues to be a controversial and unsettled subject within our society, especially within literature. Knowing this, I became curious to find out what type of censorship controversies and issues Middle Easterners are faced with in their literature, and I was not too surprised to find out […]

For quiet sometime now a select number of Westerners from various locations have been lured and recruited to join, or attempt to join, terrorist organizations, and more recently the number of recruits and attempts has increased specifically due to ISIS. CNN reported that, The FBI and the U.S. Justice Department have been trying to stay […]

The concept of gender, specifically adhering towards women, has been unaccounted and unrecognized by many around the world and there has been a struggle to grasp full understanding roles of women. When looking into the terrorism field of studies gender is often ignored and understudied by many scholars. The cause of this isn’t due to […]

Back in December, British humanitarian aid worker, Alan Henning, was held hostage by The Islamic State, and just recently on October 3rd an appalling video was released by IS, revealing Henning beheaded to send a message. This shocked many around the world and after this, finally, the online propaganda from IS began to drown out. […]