Podcasts about haroon ullah

What makes someone become an Islamic extremist? Is it poverty? Lack of education? A search for meaning? Haroon Ullah, a senior State Department advisor and a foreign policy professor at Georgetown University, shares what he discovered while living in Pakistan.

Pakistan is the world's fifth largest democracy. It is also deeply influenced by Islamic law (Sharia). Can these two traditions, Western Liberal democracy and Sharia, co-exist? If so, how? And if not, what are the consequences? Haroon Ullah, foreign policy professor at Georgetown University, has some fascinating and sobering answers.

On May 29th, Hudson Institute in cooperation with the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) held a discussion on current trends and insights on Iran.

On May 29th, Hudson Institute in cooperation with the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) held a discussion on current trends and insights on Iran.

March 20, 2018 / Haroon Ullah joins Rabia and Susan to talk about what being a State Department employee was like in the Rex Tillerson era, as well as Tillerson's awkward and (semi-)surprising firing last week, and what to expect under Secretary Pompeo. 

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President Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel sparked a mix of protest and praise this week. Journalist Allison Kaplan Sommer tells Edward why many believe the move was made to bolster support amongst his Evangelical voters in the US. What's being billed as the first ever Muslim panto begins a six day tour of Britain. The actor and comedian Abdullah Afzal is in it and he tells Edward why this pantomime is different. The Australian Royal Commission into child abuse will deliver its report next week. Interim findings have done deep damage to the reputations of many of the country's institutions, especially the churches. Australian writer Thomas Keneally, who himself trained for the priesthood, gives Edward his reaction to the fallout from the inquiry. When traumatic events happen to a community, one of the first people on the scene to organise support will be a local member of the clergy but many have received no specialist training. Sarah Swadling reports on a scheme that aims to address this. Some of the lowest paid workers are cleaners. Many have zero hour contracts and receive no holiday or sick pay. Trevor Barnes reports on a business that calls itself an ethical cleaning company to discover what they are trying to do differently. Last winter more people than ever before used a church night shelter according to research published by the charity Housing Justice today. James Langstaff , Bishop of Rochester is the Chair. ISIS may be losing the war on the physical battlefield but it's their digital strategy that is now believed to be posing the most serious threat according to Haroon Ullah, a former Senior Adviser at the US State Department. Producers: David Cook Rajeev Gupta Series Producer: Amanda Hancox.

Despite defeats like Mosul and Raqqa, ISIS and other extremist groups are thriving, says Ullah. For them, the most important battlefield is not the physical one but the information one, and there they are winning. They are nimble, moving from open-source platforms to encrypted ones and are not afraid to fail, getting instant feedback on what propaganda works best. We need a much more concerted effort--a "Manhattan project"--to combat this.

Despite defeats like Mosul and Raqqa, ISIS and other extremist groups are thriving, says Ullah. For them, the most important battlefield is not the physical one but the information one, and there they are winning. They are nimble, moving from open-source platforms to encrypted ones and are not afraid to fail, getting instant feedback on what propaganda works best. We need a much more concerted effort--a "Manhattan project"--to combat this.

Are old expectations and strategies prolonging our military conflicts? And is ISIS winning the cyber war?

T.S. Eliot may have had the best take on trying to understand the world when he said   that,  “we shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”  Perhaps that is even more true today, as some places in the world are ever changing and that with each visit we need to see and understand them anew.  Haroon Ullah is a Pakistani American scholar and diplomat.   In The Bargain from the Bazaar: A Family's Day of Reckoning in Lahore, he gives us a picture of a slice of Pakistan today.  A county both a key part of and deeply removed from the world.In fact in that contradiction lies the very reason we need to understand Pakistan. It has the power to upend the world even while it and its people try desperately to find a place in it.My conversation with Haroon Ullah: