Integralism
By Iyad O. Aljaber Integralism is a term with different meanings and dimensions. In English, it is used to describe a form of very conservative
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The western misrepresentation of Islamic world
Even if social media nowadays feel to be very influential in our life, still most of the information that we receive daily are coming from
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Are you a master or slave of the technology?
«A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there’s nothing to learn» That is what Eli Praiser wrote in his 2011 book,
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Sport as a social cohesion and redemption tool for the damned of the periphery
The most common image of Europe in the eyes of foreigners is one of the perfect and beautiful old country, filled with art, culture, and
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The clashing narratives of women’s clothing
The problem of the burka is not a religious problem, it’s a problem of liberty and women’s dignity. It’s not a religious symbol, but a
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The environmental movement, a new hope for the next decades
The second decade of the 2000s was turbulent and rich in events that will leave a mark in history. From the 2011’s financial crisis to
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Negative peace… Positive peace…
The smoke is clearing, the fires have been put out. There are no guns firing in the background, no bombs that loudly explode somewhere near.
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Dalia Al-Najjar: turning anger into hope
In February 2017, a young girl from Gaza steps onto the podium of the world’s largest international student festival. She is 6000 km away from
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A timeline for main fake news incidents and how it was handled
Fake news is nothing new. But, especially during the last presidential election in the United States in 2016, it has become something big. Here are
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Online Love Speech
What is “Online Love Speech” campaign? It is the first campaign in the MENA region to raise awareness and to mobilize a network of influential in
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When extreme violence goes out of common places
Today, the language is degraded. Most of our contemporaries fall – not always voluntarily – in common places and platitudes strengthening the one-track thinking. This
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Bias and manipulation, stereotypes promotion, raising of hate speech and the role of media
All of these are just big words and it might sound like we are just making a salad and the whole thing is simply implies
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Can Clicktivism be considered a form of Activism?
Discussions under this topic may lead to endless debates and comparative statements such as “while some of us are hiding behind their keyboard pretending to
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Using Istanbul’s Convention as an advocacy tool? for violence against women
In order to have a clear understanding of the topic mentioned here, we need to agree on some of the definitions and to also think
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Alternative narratives: a tool to educate and counter the culture of hate
In this globalized and developed world, everything goes faster and faster. The spread of information is eased thanks to social media and online platforms. Is
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Kim Noble: Minds challenging minds
As we all know, the world of today is not the world of tomorrow. Every day, new issues come out to challenge our sense of
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Pacifism in troubled times
“Most analyses of violence in the different historical periods tend to view the modern era as significantly less violent than all of its historical predecessors”,
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Echo chambers: an old school approach?
Echo chambers: an old-school approach? Echo chambers. For many of us, this is a 21st-century issue were we are extremely connected with media and social networks
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Is happiness mandatory?
Pursuing happiness has been a long-lasting quest throughout the history. In ancient Greek, the original concept of happiness, “eudaimonia”, referred to the good life. Aristotle
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Fake news vs. democracy
Rumors, gossips, and falsehoods have always existed: do you remember when a very distant relative told your mother that he had seen you play hooky
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“Too Soon”… Limitless of Humor
This year has been significantly rich in episodes of violence associated with humour, and not only related to physical violence. Some people can be highly
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Positive peace and the rise of populism in Europe
Political scientist and professor Peter Taggart have lately said that populism is “one of the most widely used but poorly understood political concepts of our
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Cyberbalkanization
In this article, I will try to go through a topic that has been gathering a lot of attention in the last years, and that
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The lost future
This era is the era of the past, the era was there is no space for the future, for the unknown. Now we are not
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The CHANs (part 1)
Suffocating eco-chamber The anonymous website 4chan was created in 2003 by the American internet entrepreneur Christopher Poole. The website was originally fashioned on the “mold”
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Watch this Italian, killing thousands of people with his apparently delicious pizza!
Ok now that I have gained your attention, I have to admit that this article does not really contain the story of an Italian serial
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Attention Economy: marketing in the Social Media Era
Time is the most precious resource that we own, everyone wants a piece of it: owners, friends, family and Facebook. Time is anyway a discussed
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Peace for the people
“Professor Johan Galtung […] explained that the concept of peace can be categorized into two types: negative and positive. Negative peace is a simple absence
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The attention machine
Attention has been defined as the “notice taken of someone or something; the regarding of someone or something as interesting or important”. An object, situation
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Do you “tolerate” or “respect” the diversity?
“Difference is of the essence of humanity. Difference is an accident of birth and it should therefore never be the source of hatred or conflict.
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