Great podcast with Elisabeth Kendall, who has done great work on jihadi poetry in recent years.
Militant Jihadi Culture: Poetry as a Weapon | University of Oxford Podcasts
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Scent from the Garden of Paradise. Musk and the Medieval Islamic World
Halal beauty products – for men
Salafism and the religious significance of physical appearances
Inside the Sad World of Racist Online Dating
Usud Al-Cherubim: A Pro-Assad Christian Militia
A fascinating article by Aymenn al-Tamimi about Christian militias in Syria. Aside from the organizational and political aspects of this phenomenon, I find the iconography interesting, not least because some of it echoes what we see from Muslim rebel groups in the same theatre.
The Bored Jihadi 