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Facing ISIS threat at home should be a priority for the Jordanian Kingdom
For the second time in less than two months, a protest in support of ISIS took place last Friday after prayers in Jordanian city of Ma’an. The city is known to be a bastion of Salafists and tribes...
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Whose mad idea was this? 10 Years of Albany
It was 2003, in the Green Zone in Baghdad and a funny thing happened on the way to the Convention Centre. Dieter Loraine and I had been hired by the UK Foreign Office (FCO) to work in the Coalition...
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How ISIS Provides Hope for the Desperate
Youth in ISIS Many questions have been raised about why ISIS recruitment campaigns have been so successful in the Middle East. For a start, one has to understand the environmental and behavioural...
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Boots on the Ground
Getty Images Boots on the ground has entered the language. Any interviewer straining to establish his or her professional credentials will always work it into a penetrating question; equally, any...
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Sad Bekaa Nights
ISIS impacts the Middle East region hard. Whatever the extent to which the impacts are felt in different countries, there is no shortage of debate on the matter in the regional press over the last...
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Albany Chairman Sir Robert Fry contributes to BBC Documentary on Afghanistan
In a remarkably lucid documentary on international engagement in Afghanistan, Sir Robert Fry joins other experts in analyzing the strategies and objectives of British and other foreign interveners in...
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Are ISIS and the Muslim Brotherhood Interconnected?
A certificate issued by ISIS declaring one Swedish citizen as “non-apostate” With varying degrees of success and sustainability, the Egyptian and Syrian approach to the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) have...
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Russia’s Information War Victory at Home—The Role of State Media
Source: The Public Diplomat Despite the Western sanctions and deteriorating economic situation in Russia, popular support for President Putin and his foreign policies has never been higher, with the...
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South Sudan: Media Development Challenges and Opportunities in a Nascent Country
Source: Associated Press The Republic of South Sudan is the newest addition to the United Nations community of states after seceding from Sudan following a self-determination referendum and became...
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Middle East Media Round Up
ISIS success in recruiting leading Islamic figures continued in the past week. The wife of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a senior al-Qaeda leader who was killed in Iraq in 2006, has just joined the...
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The Battle of the Rwandan Regulators and what it says about media reform
A month ago, the BBC aired (and later removed) a controversial documentary, ‘Rwanda, The Untold Story” on the BBC Kinyarwanda service. Offering what some observers believe to be a revisionist take on...
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Middle East Media Round Up
This week, a number of Middle Eastern pundits tackled the implications of Obama’s letter to Iranian leader Ali Khamenei – that was published in the Wall Street Journal last week – on the current...
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A Guarantee of Failure in Iraq
In an article that originally appeared in Prospect Magazine, Albany Chairman Sir Robert Fry argues that the deployment of western troops would be a narrative gift for the Islamic State. Instead, he...
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The Enemy Within: Ukraine’s Competing Narratives
Credit: Palinchak Michael This week, Russian and Ukrainian media focused on Ukrainian Prime Minister Yatsenyuk’s statement rejecting Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov’s demand that Ukraine should...
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Tunisia, A Brave New World
Source: Huffington Post This week’s Tunisian Presidential election saw a total of 25 candidates compete with a 54 per cent turnout, heralding a new dawn for the once revolutionary state. It was not so...
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Middle East Media Round Up
Two stories dominated the headlines of leading newspapers across the region this week: the ramifications of nuclear talks in Geneva and the discussion among pundits on the Sunni-Shiite division in the...
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Did You Miss Crimea?
During the past week a major Ukrainian news site Ukrinform published 50 news articles related to the conflict in Ukraine. Only two of those mentioned Crimea, whereas the other 48 covered the events in...
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Capturing the Zeitgeist: Today’s Terrorist and the Internet
Albany has been developing strategies and training for organisations at the forefront of the fight against violent extremism while researching modern extremism and its constantly changing...
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Is the Russian media loosing faith in Putin?
Source: Hareetz.com Nobody expected Putin’s address to soften Russia’s stance towards the West, but Putin’s hardline autarkic rhetoric scared even his biggest supporters. Although the subject matter of...
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Time is a Cultural Currency
In business, listening is more important than talking. Too often we forget this simple principle and in our rush to ‘do business’, we adopt a ‘one size fits all’ approach to dealing with clients. On a...
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