Daesh Expands its Language Capabilities to Amharic
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Islamic State Somalia’s Ethiopia Strategy and Online Amharic Language Supporter Networks The Daesh movement is truly a global one with branches on multiple continents waging insurgencies from Mali to Syria, Afghanistan, and the Philippines. These militant forces are part of and supported by a worldwide constellation of official and pro-Daesh media outlets as well as individual grassroots sympathisers who help shape, amplify, and disseminate narratives to support the greater cause. Being such an international movement has its advantages but also its challenges. Daesh’s Central media apparatus primarily produces its propaganda in Arabic, while it also looks to build and maintain support amongst a vast target audience comprised of speakers of many different languages, including Farsi, Urdu, Kurdish, Turkish, English, and French. One of the more notable but least studied linguistic spheres emerging within Daesh is the Amharic-speaking one.
Daesh Expands its Language Capabilities to Amharic
Daesh Expands its Language Capabilities to…
Daesh Expands its Language Capabilities to Amharic
Islamic State Somalia’s Ethiopia Strategy and Online Amharic Language Supporter Networks The Daesh movement is truly a global one with branches on multiple continents waging insurgencies from Mali to Syria, Afghanistan, and the Philippines. These militant forces are part of and supported by a worldwide constellation of official and pro-Daesh media outlets as well as individual grassroots sympathisers who help shape, amplify, and disseminate narratives to support the greater cause. Being such an international movement has its advantages but also its challenges. Daesh’s Central media apparatus primarily produces its propaganda in Arabic, while it also looks to build and maintain support amongst a vast target audience comprised of speakers of many different languages, including Farsi, Urdu, Kurdish, Turkish, English, and French. One of the more notable but least studied linguistic spheres emerging within Daesh is the Amharic-speaking one.