Articles of the Week – 4/28-5/18

Monday April 30:
Al Qaeda Is Doing Nation-Building. Should We Worry? -Will McCants, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/JXHz6U
Missionary at Home, Jihadist Abroad: A Profile of Tunisia’s Abu Ayyad the Amir of Ansar al-Shari‘ah – Aaron Y. Zelin, Jamestown Foundation’s Militant Leadership Monitor: https://bit.ly/J6LKeW
Tuesday May 1:
The Lesser of Two Evils: The Salafi Turn to Party Politics in Egypt  – Will McCants, Brookings Institution: https://bit.ly/L7Kyrt
The Next Chapter of Global Jihad – Randall Blake, Brookings Institution: https://bit.ly/L7KFmF
Wednesday May 2: 
Egypt’s “blessed” Salafi votes Khalil al-Anani, Mideast Channel: https://bit.ly/IqkBas
Libyan Islamists Unpacked: Rise, Transformation, and Future – Omar Ashour, Brookings Institution: https://bit.ly/L7LOL7
Jihadism on the Rise in Azerbaijan – Emil Souleimanov, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute Analyst: https://bit.ly/Kv5WvT
Xinjiang Insurgents and China-Pakistan Relations – Jacob Zenn, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute Analyst: https://bit.ly/IQzBJ8
Thursday May 3:
Letters from Abbottabad: Bin Ladin Sidelined? – Combating Terrorism Center: https://bit.ly/IGkV60
Purifying Kashmir: Saudi Arabia Exports Salafism to the War-Torn Region – Tariq Mir, Boston Review: https://bit.ly/IIiX4R
Mali: More on Law-and-Order Islamism – Alex Thurston, Sahel Blog: https://bit.ly/IIjweP
Abbottabad Documents Shed Light on Al Qaeda’s Use of Internet – J.M. Berger, IntelWire: https://bit.ly/L7LcVP
The bin Laden Files – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/JGoN7d
Hajj Amin al-Husayni and the Haram al-Sharif: A Pan-Islamic or Palestinian Nationalist Cause? – Erik Freas, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies: https://bit.ly/Kv4ZE1
Redeeming Sunni Islam: Al-Qa‘ida’s Polemic against the Muslim Brethren – Meir Hatina, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies: https://bit.ly/Kv58qN
Friday May 4:
Bin Laden’s online legacy – Aaron Y. Zelin, The Conversation.edu: https://bit.ly/JGFjBL
Bin Laden Docs: A Note of Caution – Clint Watts, Selected Wisdom: https://bit.ly/J1kqjq
Al-Shabaab Split Threatens to Open New Conflict Between Somalia’s Islamists – Muhyadin Ahmed Roble, Terrorism Monitor: https://bit.ly/IQzMV0
German Trials Highlight the Role of the IMU as a Feeder for al-Qaeda Operations in Europe – Raffaello Pantucci, Terrorism Monitor: https://bit.ly/IQzPQJ
Monday May 7:
Jihadists and bushfires: let’s not go nuts – Andrew Zammit: https://bit.ly/JLb0Fw
Posthumous Awlaki Article Claims CIA, FBI Tried to Recruit Him as An Informant – J.M. Berger, IntelWire: https://bit.ly/IRzGmr
Should Captured AQ Documents Have Been Released? – Steven R. Corman & Jarret Brachman: COMOPS Journal: https://bit.ly/K6gnoC
Assessing Interpretations of the New Bin Laden Documents – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Gunpowder and Lead: https://bit.ly/JGqyBq
Tuesday May 8: 
Ibrahim Asiri: A Unique bombmaker? – Gregory Johnsen, Waq al-Waq: https://bit.ly/JGqLnY
Thursday May 10:
Unanswered Questions – Gregory Johnsen, Waq al-Waq: https://bit.ly/L7NyUF
Facebook Fatwa: Saudi Clerics, Wahhabi Islam and Social Media – Jonathan Schanzer and Steven Miller, Foundation for Defense of Democracies: https://bit.ly/IN905u
Friday May 11:
Measuring Success – Gregory Johnsen, Waq al-Waq: https://bit.ly/L7NTXf
Sunday May 13:
Rolled Up in Azawad – Kal, The Moor Next Door: https://bit.ly/JIuuw0
Monday May 14:
Warding off terrorism and revolution: Moroccan religious pluralism, national identity and the politics of visual culture – Amanda E. Rogers, The Journal of North African Studies: https://bit.ly/Ar8pd5
Sufism, Salafism and state policy towards religion in Algeria: a survey of Algerian youth – Hamidi Khemissi, Ricardo René Larémont & Taybi Taj Eddine, The Journal of North African Studies: https://bit.ly/ITOPOb
Tuesday May 15:
Abu Mus’ab al Zarqawi under influence: one mentor? – Kévin Jackson, All Eyes on Jihad: https://bit.ly/L7OxUT
Policing Strategies against Islamic Terrorism in the UK after 9/11: The Socio-Political Realities for British Muslims – Stefano Bonino, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs: https://bit.ly/L5R7tS
Principles over Prejudice: Social Dominance Theory and the Mosques’ Controversy in American Cities – Daniel Hummel, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs: https://bit.ly/Jd2h4T
The Legal Methodology of “Fiqh al-Aqalliyyat” and its Critics: An Analytical Study – Tauseef Ahmad Parray, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs: https://bit.ly/L5RsN5
Wednesday May 16:
Taking on the Persona of a Suicide Bomber:a Thought Experiment – Anne Speckhard, Beatrice Jacuch & Valentijn Vanrompay, Perspectives on Terrorism: https://bit.ly/L5QtMP
Mapping Contemporary Terrorism Courses at Top-Ranked National Universities and Liberal Arts Colleges in the U.S. – Ivan Sascha Sheehan, Perspectives on Terrorism: https://bit.ly/Jd1O2A
Riots, Ritual and Rage – ‘Salafists’ and PRO-NRW in Germany – Martijn de Koning, Closer: https://bit.ly/L7Pf4n
Thursday May 17:
Jailhouse rock. Foreign Fighters. Somalia, Syria, Sahel. – Cross the Green Mountain: https://bit.ly/L7PmNp
Omar Hamammi’s Autobiography: Intellectual Influences – Jarret Brachman: https://bit.ly/JW88uj
Syrian Jihadis: Real and Exaggerated – Aaron Y. Zelin and Andrew Tabler, The Washington Institute for Near Policy: https://bit.ly/JowPvb
Friday May 18:
Borum’s “Radicalization into Violent Extremism I” – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Gunpowder and Lead: https://bit.ly/J6yl6T
Beyond moderation: dynamics of political Islam in Pakistan – Joshua T. White, Contemporary South Asia: https://bit.ly/L7PKvf