Word: propagandas
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...wasn't the only obstacle in Borat's path: Movies in Lebanon are tightly monitored by a censorship board attached to the General Security Directorate, the country's most powerful intelligence institution. The board has traditionally banned or censored movies that contain anything that might be construed as Israeli propaganda, anything sexually explicit, and anything that might incite or insult any one of Lebanon's 17 different recognized religious sects...
...much as he knew how to manipulate power in Iraq through propaganda and government-sponsored terror, he was inept at international relations and diplomacy. His enemies abroad were myriad. Certainly, he and Assad's regime in Damascus were not friendly, despite the political genetics that linked their ruling parties. But he was also an enemy of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Iranian cleric who had fled the Shah's persecution and sought refuge in Iraq's holy Shi'a city of Najaf in 1965. Saddam did not make it a comfortable stay and Khomeini moved on to exile in Europe. When...
...Within Islam, something also very profound occurred in 2006. Until earlier this year, Islam had found itself represented by essentially one faction in global politics and propaganda: the anti-Western vision of al-Qaeda's Wahhabist ideology. The power of its ability to marshall Arab and Muslim resentment against the West - and against non-Muslims more generally - drowned out milder, more moderate forms of Islam and masked deep divisions within Islam itself...
...engineer and cartographer Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan, whose works were used as “authoritative” depictions of Ukrainian borderlands for at least 150 years, Seegel wrote in an e-mail. Krawciw’s collection also boasts rare maps of Crimean War battle plans and propaganda maps. “One of Krawciw’s rules of thumb—which he seemed to have violated occasionally—was that he never wanted to spend more than $50 on a single map acquisition,” Seegel said. Now, though, the collection is thought...
...Human Subjects in Research, which reviewed his methods to make sure neither he nor his research subjects would be endangered.“When interrogated, I never divulged real names, and instead used the fictive names concocted beforehand,” said Bakshi, who was doing research on political propaganda in the country. Getting to a country like Zimbabwe on Harvard’s dime is one thing. The University only last year loosened restrictions on a number of countries, including Iran, Israel, and Lebanon. But a second hurdle students face is getting approval from the Human Subjects Committee...