Articles of the Week – 8/24-10/4

Saturday August 24:
How We Killed Privacy — in 4 Easy Steps – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Kelsey D. Atherton, Foreign Policy: https://atfp.co/15jQxqu 
Al-Qaida Advises the Arab Spring: Al-Maqdisi – Joas Wagemakers, Jihadica: https://bit.ly/15jQPhf 
Monday August 26:
An Empirical Study of Suicide Terrorism: A Global Analysis – Charlinda Santifort-Jordan and Todd Sandler, Southern Economic Journal: https://bit.ly/15pkQMH 
Tuesday August 27:
Hizb Allah’s Gambit in Syria – Matthew Levitt and Aaron Y. Zelin, CTC Sentinel: https://bit.ly/182cWaC
From Karbala to Sayyida Zaynab: Iraqi Fighters in Syria’s Shi`a Militias – Phillip Smyth, CTC Sentinel: https://bit.ly/18WG5H9
Who let the Dog out? A note on the German side of “jihadism” – Nico Prucha, Jihadica: https://bit.ly/190hsYj 
Wednesday August 28:
Tunis Designates Ansar al-Sharia in Tunisia – Aaron Y. Zelin, al-Wasat: https://bit.ly/1dP9DIR
The Suicidal Tendencies of Suicide Bombers – Jessica Stern, Foreign Affairs: https://fam.ag/198d2yQ 
Thursday August 29:
New fears for Syria’s jihadists – Charles Lister, The Middle East Channel: https://atfp.co/1dwumCB 
Monday September 2:
The Political Context of Early Wahhabi Discourse of Takfir – Tarik K. Firro, Middle Eastern Studies: https://bit.ly/17KVRGc 
A Handbook on Mali’s 2012-2013 Crisis – Alexander Thurston and Andrew Lebovich, Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa: https://bit.ly/1fNZOyf
Thursday September 5:
Syria’s Military Opposition: How Effective, United, or Extremist? – Jeffrey White, Andrew J. Tabler, and Aaron Y. Zelin, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy: https://bit.ly/17AaV3A 
Belgian Jihadis in Syria – Pieter Van Ostaeyen, Jihadology: https://bit.ly/1aat4Jx 
Friday September 6:
Memo about Syria: Jihadis are people too – Joas Wagemakers, Jihadica: https://bit.ly/1dNZwp7 
Saturday September 7:
66 Important Jihadist Twitter Accounts (part 2) – Nico Prucha and Ali Fisher, Jihadica: https://bit.ly/14sRvD1 
Backgrounder on the Mujahideen of the Caucasus and the Levant – Mark Youngman, Extremist Russia: https://bit.ly/14sTtDo 
The North Caucasus Insurgency’s Syrian Balancing Act – Mark Youngman, Jihadology: https://bit.ly/1enG3KL 
Sunday September 8:
Porous Borders & Boko Haram’s Arms Smuggling Operations in Nigeria – Freedom Onuoha, al-Jazeera Center for Studies: https://bit.ly/1au68IZ 
Monday September 9:
Kata’ib Sayyid al-Shuhada Emerges: Updates on the New Iraqi Shia Militia Supplying Fighters to Syria – Phillip Smyth, Jihadology: https://bit.ly/1dTNPx8 
Jihadist Terrorism: A Threat Assessment – Peter Bergen, Bruce Hoffman, Michael Hurley, and Erroll Southers, Bipartisan Policy Center: https://bit.ly/1al3r8T 
A Global Venture to Counter Violent Extremism – Ed Husain, Council on Foreign Relations: https://on.cfr.org/185W5rA 
Syria’s Insurgency: Beyond Good Guys and Bad Guys – Charles Lister, The Middle East Channel: https://atfp.co/15RehhV 
Tuesday September 10
The al Qaeda Network: A New Framework for Defining the Enemy – Katie Zimmerman, American Enterprise Institute: https://bit.ly/17OrIUK 
Al-Qaeda in Syria: A Closer Look at ISIS (Part I) – Aaron Y. Zelin, Washington Institute for Near East Policy: https://bit.ly/17ofAJd 
al-Qaeda in Iraq Resurgent – Jessica D. Lewis, Institute for the Study of War: https://bit.ly/1fWG8D1 
Al-Qaeda’s continued core strategy and disquieting leader-led trajectory – Bruce Hoffman and Fernando Reinares, Real Instituto Elcano: https://bit.ly/1bE2Y2o
Wednesday September 11:
Jihad 2020: Assessing Al-Qaida’s 20-Year Plan – Aaron Y. Zelin, World Politics Review: https://bit.ly/1b4WifP 
Al-Qaeda in Syria: A Closer Look at ISIS (Part II) – Aaron Y. Zelin, Washington Institute for Near East Policy: https://bit.ly/13RjKIQ
Dear jihadis: A letter from J.M. – J.M. Berger, Intel Wire: https://intelwire.net/18QoGNY 
Thursday September 12:
Uzbek Extremism in Context, Part 1: The Uzbek Jihad and the Problem of Religious Freedom – Noah Tucker, Registan: https://bit.ly/16pF0GN 
A New Index to Assess the Effectiveness of Al Qaeda – Noman Benotman and Jonathan Russell, Quilliam Foundation: https://bit.ly/1767kdz
Monday September 16:
Omar and Me: My strange, frustrating relationship with an American terrorist – J.M. Berger, Foreign Policy: https://atfp.co/1aGeIks 
Wednesday September 18:
Zawahiri’s “Guideline for Jihad” – Yassin Musharbash, Abu Susu: https://bit.ly/1a3OcAH 
Rise of Militant Salafism in Azerbaijan & Its Regional Implications – Emil Souleimanov and Maya Ehrmann, Middle East Policy: https://bit.ly/1a3PrzC 
Thursday September 19:
An Islamist ‘renaissance’? Religion & politics in post-revolutionary Tunisia – Anne Wolf, The Journal of North African Studies: https://bit.ly/1bsT5XB 
Friday September 20:
Do Excellent Surgeons Make Miserable Exegetes? Negotiating the Sunni Tradition in the ǧihādī Camps – Simon Wolfgang Fuchs, Die Welt des Islams: https://bit.ly/16ndj1Y
In Internet’s Way: Radical, Terrorist Islamists on the Free Highway – Raphael Cohen-Almago, International Journal of Cyber Warfare and Terrorism: https://bit.ly/17PEgdC 
Sharia courts of the Sinai – Mara Revkin, The Middle East Channel: https://atfp.co/14rgpkd 
Saturday September 21:
Al-Qaida Advises the Arab Spring: The Case for al-Baghdadi – Joas Wagemakers, Jihadica: https://bit.ly/1eyzJSa 
Tuesday September 24:
The Swedish Foreign Fighter Contingent in Syria – Per Gudmundson, CTC Sentinel: https://bit.ly/19xm9J0 
Pakistani Fighters Joining the War in Syria – Zia Ur Rehman, CTC Sentinel: https://bit.ly/19xnqjh 
The Siege in Nairobi – Clinton Watts, Foreign Policy: https://atfp.co/19xpgAz 
Media Discourse on Jihadist Terrorism in Europe – Sybille Reinke de Buitrago, Journal of Terrorism Research: https://bit.ly/19xpUhx 
Islamist groups in the UK and recruitment – Mohammed Ilyas, Journal of Terrorism Research: https://bit.ly/19xq6gP 
Wednesday September 25:
Weathering Morocco’s Syria Returnees – Vish Sakthivel, Washington Institute for Near East Policy: https://bit.ly/18q2agJ 
Thursday September 26:
Harvest of violence: the neglect of basic rights and the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria – Hakeem O. Yusuf, Critical Studies on Terrorism: https://bit.ly/1fr4nON 
Dilemmas of “going legit”: why should violent groups engage in or avoid electoral politics? – Susanne Martin, Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression: https://bit.ly/1fr6VMV 
Friday September 27:
The Dangers of Success: Why it’s not so simple to crush and kill al Qaeda affiliates – Dan Byman, Foreign Policy: https://atfp.co/16SxK3a 
Monday September 30:
Gulf charities and Syrian sectarianism – William McCants, The Middle East Channel: https://atfp.co/1hfv0BV 
Al-Qaeda’s Offensive Against Iraq’s Sahwa – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Bridget Moreng, War on the Rocks: https://bit.ly/15MtDLd
Tuesday October 1:
Keeping Score in the War on al-Qaeda – StephenTankel, War On The Rocks: https://bit.ly/15GuUU2 
Twitter’s Week of Reckoning – J.M. Berger, Foreign Policy: https://intelwire.net/1hidyg1 
Wednesday October 2:
Assessing (In)security after the Arab Spring – John Gledhill, PS: Political Science & Politics: https://bit.ly/1fKdPwJ 
Assessing (In)security after the Arab Spring: The Case of Egypt – Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, PS: Political Science & Politics: https://bit.ly/173QkWe 
Assessing (In)security after the Arab Spring: The Case of Yemen – April Longley Alley, PS: Political Science & Politics: https://bit.ly/1fKdMkG 
Assessing (In)security after the Arab Spring: The Case of Libya – Brian McQuinn, PS: Political Science & Politics: https://bit.ly/173Qmxl 
Conclusion: Managing (In)security in Post-Arab Spring Transitions – John Gledhill, PS: Political Science & Politics: https://bit.ly/173Qq02 
The Malian Crisis and its Actors – Dario Cristiani and Riccardo Fabiani, The International Spectator: https://bit.ly/173R8dD 
Thursday October 3:
Increasing Numbers of Central Asian Jihadists in Syria – Jacob Zenn, CACI Analyst: https://bit.ly/16kIniU 
Al-Qaeda in Iraq Resurgent Part II – Jessica Lewis, Institute for the Study of War: https://bit.ly/16kJEqa 
The Rise of Persian Salafism – Mehdi Khalaji, Washington Institute for Near East Policy: https://bit.ly/16kNj7o 
Population Redistribution and Language Spread in the Medieval Muslim World – Ghada Osman, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies: https://bit.ly/16JLTpj