CyberOrient
Journal of the Virtual Middle East
and Islamic World

Vol. 19, Iss. 2, 2025

The War of Humor: A Visual Content Analysis of Israel’s Information Warfare in France and Spain

14 Dec 2025

The War of Humor: A Visual Content Analysis of Israel’s Information Warfare in France and Spain
Ninon Bouteloup Article While humor has invested all areas of society, it is still largely considered as an epiphenomenon in international security studies and a second-rank topic when it comes to information warfare. This article explores to what extent humor functions as a key component of information warfare, with a focus on Israeli visual messaging in France and Spain in the digital space. Using qualitative visual content analysis…

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Finishing the Fight for Freedom: The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s Strategic Communication of the “Freedom Jihad” Narrative Frame on X

14 Dec 2025

Finishing the Fight for Freedom: The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s Strategic Communication of the “Freedom Jihad” Narrative Frame on X
Bořivoj Nachtmann Article This article examines the strategic communication of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) between November 2022 and August 2023. Specifically, it focuses on the official spokesperson, Zabihullah Mujahid, whose account is the central node of the IEA’s X network. Drawing on Nicole Ball’s framework of post-conflict state reconstruction and utilizing the approach of Teun A. van Dijk’s…

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Lurking Terror in Andor: The Subaltern from Above

14 Dec 2025

Lurking Terror in Andor: The Subaltern from Above
Emir Alışık Comment This essay draws discursive parallels between the Disney+ science fiction TV series Andor and the Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilization’s (ANAMED) documentary exhibition Palestine from Above to explore curatorial and storytelling methods employed in resistance against colonial powers. It argues that both productions tell stories “from below” by strategically counterposing street-level narratives of resistance against the technological and archival–discursive dominance of an aerial…

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