An in-depth study of Islamic State’s media practices is to be published in January 2025 as a new open-access book by two staff members of the Conflict Institute. Islamic State, Media, and Propaganda: Performances of the ‘Visual Caliphate’ is by Dr Moign Khawaja (IRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow) and Prof Christian Kaunert (Professor of International Security).

The book investigates the breadth of visual broadcasts and performances of the Islamic State (IS). The authors present a rigorous examination of how and why IS visually projected its abilities and strength as a modern state, and provide insights to the purposes behind their propaganda.

It is published by Edward Elgar and will be available on open access with a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License.

Publication Date: January 2025 
ISBN: 978 1 03533 621 0