This paper reports data from a study of young Catholic activists. They were concerned about the expansion Islamist populism in democratic Muslim-majority Indonesia. actively built inter-faith coalitions with local liberal Muslim youth groups and pan-national Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), largest independent Islamic organisation world. prioritises religious identity over national citizenship. In framing...

Turkey has seen a surge in populist nationalism over the last decade. How this played out transnational space through overseas Turkish citizens’ voting behaviour remains understudied, however. This article takes up question, focusing on how populist–nationalist appeals of ruling AKP have been received by citizens Europe. Specifically, it asks why such resonated highly with voters some host coun...

How does religion shape the nature of insurgency? Do Islamist insurgents fight differently from those with secular aims, like national selfdetermination? Do they select different types of targets, use different military strategies, respond to different types of incentives? Scholarly attention to the role of religion in civil and interstate war has increased in recent years, but there remains li...

The article examines how Japan and Germany face the challenge of maintaining their self-images of global civilian powers in an unstable and unstructured world order. Both Japan and Germany have been struggling since 1945 with defining and identifying norms and interests that would help them interpret the lessons of history and enable them to act responsibly and constructively in a globalizing w...

This paper provides an innovative approach to visual analysis in the Middle East. It addresses a fundamental problem fields of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Securitization Theory (ST): they largely ignore visual. project develops methodology for analysis. Its utility is demonstrated through examination Saudi propaganda video, entitled “Saudi Strike Force Video.” When observing Saudi-Ira...

Different issues have been probed in learner corpus research since the late 1980s.However, taking the im- portance of meta discourse markers (MDMs) in signposting academic discourse, their use in Iranian EFL learners‟ academic essays is an area of research in need of a more serious analysis. Contributing to this line of investigation, this paper reports a corpus-based study of the use of MDMs i...

English language teaching (ELT) in Iran has experienced a turbulent history reflecting an often dynamic context and changing attitudes toward English, yet framed within a discourse of tolerance rather than one of embrace, as this study is going to show. The discourse was much brighter before the Islamic Revolution and this study reveals that there were much fewer adverse policies toward the spr...

Royal Portraiture is one of the last Iranian miniature styles which more or less can be considered a Synthesis Style and European elements. This style was inspired by Westernization, but underwent important changes during Qajar era. In this research, tries to analyze interpret its ruptures that occurred in era Mohammad Shah. The main issue present project study ways rupture consequences were vi...