Etaywe is a bilingual (English and Arabic) forensic investigator researching the language of violent extremism and the role of linguistics in digital terrorist texts, criminal investigations, and social justice cases. He is a member of the International Association for Forensic and Legal Linguistics, and a lifetime member of the Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association (ASFLA Inc.). His research interests include language as evidence, digital deviance, social (dis)affiliation in cyber-mediated terrorist communications, the morality of terrorism, and cybercrimes such as threatening communications, and incitement to hatred and radicalisation. Etaywe’s research appears in the top journals of (forensic) linguistics and the semiotics of law. A former fully commissioned officer from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Etaywe brings to bear powerful skillsets and a background that includes United Nations peacekeeping and ‘Expert-on-Mission’ roles.
He also brings his expertise as a research-theme leader at the NT Academic Centre for Cyber Security and Innovation.
Ryder is a consultant strategist and was Special Reader for Etawye’s doctoral dissertation on terrorist discourse. His expertise in rhetoric, New Criticism, Formalism, structuralism, and semiotics marries with an impressive public profile in strategic analysis and design. Ryder is the Associate Editor of Southern Semiotic Review—the Southern Hemisphere’s only serious journal of semiotics. He is currently writing a book on the grammar of strategy. Here, Ryder explains how strategy may be reverse engineered through a close reading of tactics—a matter of crucial moment to the work of IFC. With a skillset that complements Etaywe’s, Ryder’s penetrating insights into the hidden patterns and dynamics of strategy are of profound importance to the partnership.