Speakers

Jay Ryder

The University of Melbourne

Jay Ryder is a third-year Ph.D. candidate at the University of Melbourne in Australia. His research areas are the history of militant jihad and violence in Islam, the history of Muslim-Christian relations, and contemporary Salafi-Jihadism.

A Comparative Analysis of Rhetoric from the First Crusade (1095–1099) and the War on Terror

This paper presents a discourse analysis of Pope Urban II's call for the First Crusade (1095–1099) and President George W. Bush's declarations of the War on Terror, and subsequent impacts for Muslims.

Sessions

Tools of War in the Middle East