On 25 March 2018, the European Union started enforcing the General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR. It is a landmark data privacy law that provides […]
Author Archives: Haroun Alfarsi
Explainer: The Reasons for Brexit
On 23 June 2016, the United Kingdom held the EU Membership Referendum to ask the people if they wanted the country to either remain a […]
The Pagan Origins of Christmas
Christmas is an annual festival celebrated on the 25th of December across the world to commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ. The nativity stories found […]
Critical Infrastructure: Definition and Examples
Critical infrastructure or critical national infrastructure is a term used by governments to refer to physical, non-physical, and cyber resources or assets and systems that […]
Profile: Erin Saltman
Dr. Erin Marie Saltman is an expert on the processes of radicalization with a specific focus on topics covering far-right and Islamist extremism radicalization processes […]
Origins and Causes of Anti-Semitism
The term anti-Semitism was first introduced in Germany during the 1870s to describe the discrimination and hatred toward Jews living in Europe. It is currently […]
Reasons Islam Spread Quickly from the Arabian Peninsula
Islam is the second largest religion in the world. It also remains the fastest-growing in terms of the number of membership and geographical scope. The […]
How and Why Islam Spread in Southeast Asia
There are about 240 million Muslims in Southeast Asia. This makes Islam as the most dominant religion in the region. In Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia, […]
Oil and Gas: Upstream, Midstream, and Downstream
The oil and gas industry is divided into three components or sectors: the upstream, midstream, and downstream. Note that these three sectors also correspond to […]
Sea Dispute: Sovereignty vs. Sovereign Rights
Disputes between two or more countries over seas and the corresponding natural resources are always complicated. These issues have been one of the focal points […]
