Essays on Isis

Following a fast scaling and concomitant regional victories, the Islamic State, otherwise called ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) has currently, taken operational order and administration of the worldwide jihadist development, overshadowing Al Qaeda Central (AQC), which assaulted the US country on September 11, 2001. ISIS, arguably represents the biggest terrorist threat to the…

From its rise in Iraq and extension into Syria, Afghanistan and Northern Africa to its global recruiting successes and its brutal ideology, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) took the Middle East by storm. The unique organization of ISIS, its powerful message and strong-armed approach have brought this terrorist organization to the forefront…

Joby Warrick makes the story of how ISIS came to be in his book Black Flags: The Rise of Isis. He walks the reader through events before ISIS came to be, that he feels is what created a situation for ISIS to be made and to flourish. Both directly and indirectly Warrick blames events on…

I will analyze why ISIS has gained such a large amount of mainstream attention in the past three years with their effective usage of social network to distribute their message and attract potential recruits. With the constant development of the world, ISIS has succeeded in manipulating the online climate, creating headlines with its unprecedented and…

The creation of videos is strategy of ISIS propaganda. In recent years, it has gone into the development of high-quality Hollywood films, which involve images in addition to the visual vocabulary as advertising methods in addition to the cinematic marketing language. ISIS back in 2014, released videos with different personalities such as a German rapper…

ISIS. The extremist group called the Islamic State or ISIS has shaken the world into terror. To comprehend the true meaning of the movement behind what is going on in the industrialized West has to be the most difficult and heart-wrenching things any human can do. These extremists have not only posed a grave threat…

The Syrian civil war started in 2011 and was, according to (Sari, A., 2017), a result of long-standing tensions between the government of Syria and the Syrian people when local parents were insulted by local officials in a matter relating to their kinds misdemeanor actions. In much the same way mass demonstrations and riots in…

Terrorism can be seen as a way to intimidate another by using direct threats of violence to make rise for political advantage. Terrorism can be carried out by individuals or groups, in our own countries and internationally. It seems to be an ongoing war that has only began to expand in our recent times. With…

Introduction Classical understanding of propaganda as the “management of collective attitude by the manipulation of significant symbols” (Lasswell, 1927, p.627) From geo-political perspectives, digital propaganda as the “Gerasimove Doctrine” points out, is an effective non-military means for achieving political and strategic goals, in a way that exceeds the power of force of weapons (MacFarquhar, 2016)….