Iraq's Muqtada al-Sadr: The messaging and the mayhem | The Listening Post

It has been a year of mounting crises in Iraq and influential Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr has taken advantage of the most recent one with a clever communications strategy spanning from sermons to social media.

Contributors:
Renad Mansour - Iraq Initiative, Chatham House
Ruba Ali Al-Hassani - Iraq researcher
Ammar Karim - Iraqi journalist
Hayder Hamzoz - Digital rights activist, Founder, Iraqi Network for Social Media

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Satellites have entered the newsroom, but are they the all-seeing eye they claim to be? Producer Ahmed Madi reports on the stories they are telling - and those they are not.

Contributors:
Lisa Parks - Director, MIT Global Media Technologies and Cultures Lab; author, Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual
Chris Quilty - CEO, Quilty Analytics, satellite and space industry analyst
Michael Cruickshank - Open-source journalist and geospatial analyst

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