Publications

Aaron Y. Zelin, “The policy consequences of Arab state normalization with the Assad regime,” Middle East Institute, June 2, 2021 [With Oula Alrifai].
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Protests in Daraa, Syria Undermine Assad’s Narrative of Victory,” Fikra Forum, April 2, 2021 [With Oula Alrifai].
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Jihadi Movements 2021: ISIS, al-Qaeda, and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham,” The Wilson Center, March 17, 2021.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Tunisia 2021: Ennahda vs. Extremists,” The Wilson Center, March 17, 2021.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Assad Is Giving Biden Every Reason to Prioritize Syria,” Policy Watch 3443, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, March 3, 2021 [With Oula Alrifai].
Aaron Y. Zelin, “The Case of Jihadology and the Securitization of Academia,” Terrorism and Political Violence, Volume 33, Issue 2, March 2021.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “The Tunisian Jihadist Movement Ten Years After the Prisoner Amnesty,” Policy Watch 3437, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, February 19, 2021.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Syria at the Center of Power Competition and Counterterrorism,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Policy Notes Number 95, February 2021.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Tunisians of the Iraq Jihad and How That Set the Stage for the Syrian Jihad,” The ISIS Blog, January 29, 2021.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “My Beloved Brothers in God, This Is An Invitation: The Islamic State’s Dawa and Mosques Administration,” ISIS Files, George Washington University, December 2020.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Al-Qaeda’s External Operations One Year After the Pensacola Attack,” Policy Watch 3408, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, December 11, 2020 [With Matthew Levitt].
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Review of Haroro J. Ingram, Craig Whiteside, and Charlie Winter’s “The ISIS Reader: Milestone Texts of the Islamic State Movement,” Perspectives on Terrorism, Volume 14, Issue 5, 2020.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Living Long Enough To See Yourself Become The Villain: The Case of Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi,” Jihadica, September 10, 2020.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “The Jihadi-Backed Salvation Government and Covid-19 in Northwest Syria,” Istituto per gli studi di politica internazionale, May 15, 2020.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Syria’s Three Governments Confront the Coronavirus,” Policy Watch 3294, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, April 1, 2020 [With Oula Alrifai].
Aaron Y. Zelin, “A Year Since Baghuz, the Islamic State Is Neither Defeated nor Resurging (Yet),” Policy Watch 3287, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, March 25, 2020.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “How Ansar al-Sharia in Tunisia’s Message Framing Primed Its Members to Become Recruits for the Islamic State,” Global Network on Extremism & Technology, March 19, 2020.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Ultra Extremism Among Tunisian Jihadis Within the Islamic State,” Jihadica, February 18, 2020.
Aaron Y. Zelin, Your Sons Are At Your Service: Tunisia’s Missionaries of Jihad (Columbia University Press, February 2020).
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Tunisia Turns a Corner Against the Jihadist Movement,” Policy Watch 3251, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, January 27, 2020.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “The Islamic State in Libya Has Yet to Recover,” Policy Watch 3222, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, December 6, 2019.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Baghdadi Is Dead but His Legend Lives On,” Foreign Policy, October 29, 2019.
Aaron Y. Zelin “After Baghdadi: How the Islamic State Rebounds,” Policy Watch 3207, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, October 28, 2019 [With Katherine Bauer and Matthew Levitt].
Aaron Y. Zelin, “The Islamic State in Syria After the U.S. Withdrawal,” Policy Watch 3203, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, October 23, 2019.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Wilayat al-Hawl: ‘Remaining’ and Incubating the Next Islamic State Generation,” Policy Notes 70, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, October 2019.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Huras al-Din: The Overlooked al-Qaeda Group in Syria,” Policy Watch 3188, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, September 24, 2019.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “The Development of Tunisia’s Domestic Counter-Terrorism Finance Capability,” CTC Sentinel, Volume 12, Issue 8, September 2019 [With Katherine Bauer]
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Tunisia Keeps Calm and Carries On After Latest Terrorist Attack,” Policy Watch 3149, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, July 3, 2019.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Not Gonna Be Able To Do It: al-Qaeda in Tunisia’s Inability to Take Advantage of the Islamic State’s Setbacks,” Perspectives on Terrorism, Volume 13, Issue 1, February 2019.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Repatriating Western Jihadists: The Impact of U.S. Syria Policy,” Policy Watch 3086, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, February 27, 2019 [With Matthew Levitt].
Aaron Y. Zelin, “A Review of Gilles Kepel’s ‘Terror in France: The Rise of Jihad in the West’,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 51, Issue 1, February 2019.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Mission Unaccomplished: The Tweet That Upended Trump’s Counterterrorism and Iran Policies,” War on the Rocks, December 25, 2018 [With Matthew Levitt].
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Tunisian Foreign Fighters in Iraq and Syria,” Policy Notes 55, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, November 2018.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Tunisia’s Female Jihadists,” Policy Watch 3032, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, October 31, 2018.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Tunisian Jihadism Five Years After Ansar al-Sharia,” Middle East Institute, September 16, 2018.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “A Review of Fawaz Gerges’ ‘ISIS: A History’,” Politics, Religion & Ideology, Volume 19, Issue 3, July 2018.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “The Islamic State Targets Tunisia Ahead of Elections,” Policy Watch 2965, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, April 30, 2018.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “The Others: Foreign Fighters in Libya,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Policy Notes 45, January 2018.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Revisiting the Islamic State’s 2011-2014 Reemergence: Lessons for the Future,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Policy Watch 2903, December 18, 2017.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Interpreting the Fall of Islamic State Governance,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Policy Watch 2871, October 16, 2017.
Aaron Y. Zelin, Matthew Levitt, and Katherine Bauer, “What to Expect From the State Department’s Annual Counterterrorism Report,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Policy Watch 2834, July 18, 2017.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “The Caliphate Project in Iraq Post-Mosul,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Policy Watch 2831, July 13, 2017.
Aaron Y. Zelin (editor), “How al-Qaeda Survived Drones, Uprisings, and the Islamic State,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Policy Focus 153, June 2017.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Manchester Attack Highlights Foreign Fighters in Libya,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Policy Watch 2810, May 24, 2017.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “The Importance of CVE in Light of the Changing Nature of the Threat,” Lawfare, April 27, 2017.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Fifteen Years After the Djerba Synagogue Bombing,” CTC Sentinel, Volume 10, Issue 4, April 2017.
Aaron Y. Zelin and other members of the bipartisan study group, “Defeating Ideologically Inspired Violent Extremism: A Strategy to Build Strong Communities and Protect the U.S. Homeland,” Transition 2017: Policy Notes for the Trump Administration, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, March 2017.
Aaron Y. Zelin and other specialists in the field, “The Jihadi Threat: ISIS, Al Qaeda and Beyond,” United States Institute of Peace, December 2016/January 2017.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “The Role of Tunisians,” in ed. Katherine Bauer, Beyond Syria and Iraq: Examining Islamic State Provinces, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Policy Focus 149, November 2016.
Aaron Y. Zelin and Jacob Olidort, “The Islamic State’s Views on Homosexuality,” Policy Watch 2630, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, June 14, 2016.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Jihadism in Lebanon Since 2011,” in ed. Maximilian Felsch and Martin Wählisch, Lebanon and the Arab Uprisings: In the Eye of the Hurricane, Routledge.
Aaron Y. Zelin and Jonathan Prohov, “How Western States Other than EU Countries Are Responding to Foreign Fighters? A Glance at USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand,” in ed. Andrea de Guttry, Francesca Capone and Christophe Paulussen, Foreign Fighters Under International Law and Beyond, Springer Verlag [With Jonathan Prohov].
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Filtering the Islamic State’s Meta-Narratives: From Global to Local,” The Carter Center, February 2016.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Is ISIS Good at Governing?,” Brookings Institution, February 9, 2016.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “The Islamic State’s Territorial Methodology,” Policy Notes 29, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, January 2016.
Aaron Y. Zelin and Oula A. Alrifai, “The Islamic State in Southern Syria,” CTC Sentinel, Volume 8, Issue 11, November/December 2015.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “The Decline in Islamic State Media Output,” ICSR Insight, December 4, 2015.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Targeting Europe’s Refugees Is Not the Answer,” Policy Watch 2524, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, November 16, 2015.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Picture or It Didn’t Happen: A Snapshot of the Islamic State’s Official Media Output,” Perspectives on Terrorism, Volume 9, Number 4, 2015.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “From the Archduke to the Caliph: The Islamist Evolution that Led to the ‘Islamic State’,” in ed. Aran Byrn, The First World War and its Aftermath: The Shaping of the Middle East, Gingko Library Press.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “The Islamic State’s Burgeoning Capital in Sirte, Libya,” Policy Watch 2462, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, August 6, 2015.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Tunisia’s Fragile Democratic Transition,” House Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa, July 14, 2015.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “The Tunisian-Libyan Jihadi Connection,” ICSR Insight, July 6, 2015.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “The Islamic State’s Saudi Chess Match,” Policy Watch 2432, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, June 2, 2015.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Between the Islamic State and al-Qaeda in Tunisia,” ICSR Insight, May 11, 2015.
Aaron Y. Zelin and Patrick Hoover, “What AQAP’s Operations Reveal About Its Strategy in Yemen,” War on the Rocks, April 23, 2015.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “The State of al-Qaeda,” ICSR Insight, April 13, 2015.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “The Rise and Decline of Ansar al-Sharia in Libya,” Current Trends in Islamist Ideology, Volume 18, May 2015.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “New Zealand’s Jihadis,” New Zealand International Review, April 2015.
Aaron Y. Zelin and Oula A. Alrifai, “Assad Plays America the Fool…Again,” The National Interest, March 21, 2015.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Foreign Fighter Motivations,” Statement submitted for the conference “Taking the Fight to ISIL: Operationalizing CT Lines of Effort Against the Islamic State Group,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, February 2, 2015.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “The Islamic State’s Model,” The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage, January 28, 2015.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “The Islamic State: A Video Introduction,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, January 13, 2015.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “What Do Asian-Oceanic Nations Think About ISIS?,” The National Interest, December 1, 2014.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “The Islamic State’s Archipelago of Provinces,” Policy Alert, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, November 14, 2014.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “The Islamic State’s First Colony in Libya,” Policy Watch 2325, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, October 10, 2014.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Will Gaza Be the Global Jihadists’ Next Ground Zero?,” Ha’aretz, September 29, 2014.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Turks Or Uyghurs Arrested In Indonesia?,” Jihadology, September 17, 2014.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “The Radicalization of Syria,” Per Concordiam, Volume 5 Issue 3, September 2014.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: Islamic State’s Driving Force,” BBC, July 30, 2014.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Colonial Caliphate: The Ambitions of the ‘Islamic State’,” Jihadology, July 8, 2014.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “ISIS Is Dead, Long Live the Islamic State,” Foreign Policy, June 30, 2014.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Syria: The Epicenter of Future Jihad,” Policy Watch 2278, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, June 30, 2014.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “The War Between ISIS and al-Qaeda for Supremacy of the Global Jihadist Movement,” Research Notes 20, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, June 2014.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “The Massacre Strategy,” Politico, June 17, 2014.
Aaron Y. Zelin “The ISIS Guide to Building an Islamic State,” The Atlantic, June 13, 2014.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “The Return of Sunni Foreign Fighters in Iraq,” Policy Watch 2267, Washingon Institute for Near East Policy, June 12, 2014.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Sunni Foreign Fighters in Syria: Background, Facilitating Factors, and Select Responses,” PfPC Background Paper No. 1, George Marshall Center’s Partnership for Peace Consortium, May 21, 2014.
Aaron Y. Zelin and Jonathan Prohov, “Proactive Measures—Countering the Returnee Threat,” Lawfare, May 18, 2014.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Update on Shabab al-Tawhid and Creation of al-Midrar Media,” Jihadology, May 12, 2014.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Shabab al-Tawhid: The Rebranding of Ansar al-Sharia in Tunisia?,” Policy Watch 2250, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, May 9, 2014.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “When Jihadists Learn How to Help,” Washington Post’s Monkey Cage, May 7, 2014.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “The Saudi Foreign Fighter Presence in Syria,” CTC Sentinel, Volume 7 Issue 4, April 2014.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “The Guidelines: Measuring Zawahiri’s Influence,” Jihadology, March 9, 2014.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “The Return of Foreign Fighters in the Iraq Jihad,” Jihadology, March 6, 2014.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Inside Baseball on Syrian Rebel Infighting,” War On the Rocks, February 7, 2014.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Al-Qaeda Disaffiliates with the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham,” Policy Alert, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, February 4, 2014.
Aaron Y. Zelin and Phillip Smyth, “The Vocabulary of Sectarianism,” Foreign Policy‘s Middle East Channel, January 29, 2014.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Foreign Jihadists in Syria: Tracking Recruitment Networks,” Policy Watch 2186, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, December 19, 2013.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Up to 11,000 Foreign Fighters in Syria; Steep Rise Among Western Europeans,” International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence, December 17, 2013.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Rebels Consolidating Strength in Syria: The Islamic Front,” Policy Watch 2177, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, December 3, 2013.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Jihadist Reactions in the Event of an Israeli War with Hezbollah or Assad,” in No Good Outcome: How Israel Could Be Drawn into the Syrian Conflict, Policy Focus 131, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, November 2013.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Meeting a Returned Tunisian Foreign Fighter from the Syrian Front,” Syria Deeply, November 8, 2013.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Tunisia: Uncovering Ansar al-Sharia,” Think Africa Press, October 25, 2013.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Who is Tunisia’s Salafi Cleric Shaykh al-Khatib al-Idrisi?,” al-Wasat, October 23, 2013.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Tunisia’s Fragile Transition,” The National Interest, October 17, 2013.
Aaron Y. Zelin and Barak Barfi, “Al Qaeda’s Syrian Strategy,” Foreign Policy, October 10, 2013.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “A Closer Look at ISIS (Part II),” Policy Watch 2138, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, September 11, 2013.
Aaron Y. Zelin and Barak Barfi, “Al Qaeda’s Syrian Strategy,” Foreign Policy, October 10, 2013.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Jihad 2020: Assessing Al-Qaida’s 20-Year Plan,” World Politics Review, September 11, 2013.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “A Closer Look at ISIS (Part I),” Policy Watch 2137, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, September 10, 2013.
Aaron Y. Zelin, Jeffrey White, and Andrew J. Tabler, “Syria’s Military Opposition: How Effective, United, or Extremist?,” Policy Focus 128, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, September 2013.
Aaron Y. Zelin and Matthew Levitt, “Hizb Allah’s Gambit in Syria,” CTC Sentinel, Volume 6 Issue 8, August 2013.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Tunis Designates Ansar al-Sharia in Tunisia,” al-Wasat, August 28, 2013.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Socio-political Background and Intellectual Undergirding of the Ikhwani Breakaway Factions: 1954-1981,” Occasional Papers #1, Jihadology, August 2013.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Libya’s Jihadists Beyond Benghazi,” Foreign Policy’s Middle East Channel, August 12, 2013.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “New Evidence on Ansar al-Sharia in Libya Training Camps,” al-Wasat, August 8, 2013.
Aaron Y. Zelin and Soner Cagaptay, “Turkey’s Jihadi Dilemma,” CNN Global Public Square, August 5, 2013.
Aaron Y. Zelin and Andrew Lebovich, “Alleged Brahmi Killer: Tracing Ties Between Aboubaker el-Hakim, Ansar al-Sharia, and Al-Qaeda,” Tunisia Live, July 26, 2013.
Aaron Y. Zelin, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, and Andrew Lebovich, “Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb’s Tunisia Strategy,” CTC Sentinel, Volume 6 Issue 7, July 2013.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “The Terrorist Threat in North Africa: Before and After Benghazi,” House Foreign Affairs Committee, July 10, 2013.
Aaron Y. Zelin and Thomas Hegghammer, “How Syria’s Civil War Became a Holy Crusade,” Foreign Affairs, July 7, 2013.
Aaron Y. Zelin and Charles Lister, “The Crowning of the Syrian Islamic Front,” Foreign Policy’s Middle East Channel, June 24, 2013.
Aaron Y. Zelin, Evan F. Kohlmann, and Laith al-Khouri, “Convoy of Martyrs in the Levant,” Jihadology and Flashpoint Intel, June 2013.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Standoff Between the Tunisian Government and Ansar al-Sharia,” Policy Watch 2077, May 14, 2013, Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Announcement of an Islamic State in Syria,” Policy Alert, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, April 9, 2013.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Islamism in Libya,” in World Almanac of Islamism 2013, American Foreign Policy Council, April 2013.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “European Foreign Fighters in Syria,” International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence, April 2, 2013.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Al-Qaeda in Iraq Enters the Syrian Conflict,” al-Wasat, March 11, 2013.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Meeting Tunisia’s Ansar al-Sharia,” The Middle East Channel, March 8, 2013.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Tunisia’s Post-Revolution Blues,” Foreign Affairs, March 6, 2013.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Muhammad al-Zawahiri: Leader of the Salafi-Jihadi Revival in Post-Mubarak Egypt,” Jamestown Foundation’s Militant Leadership Monitor, Volume 4 Issue 2, February 2013.
Aaron Y. Zelin and Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, “Uncharitable Organizations,” Foreign Policy, February 26, 2013.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Deciphering the Jihadist Presence in Syria: An Analysis of Martyrdom Notices,” CTC Sentinel, Volume 6 Issue 2, February 2013.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “The Night’s Watch: Ansar al-Shari’ah in Tunisia’s ‘Neighborhood Committees’,” al-Wasat, February 11, 2013.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Salafis Consolidate Power in Syria,” al-Wasat, February 6, 2013.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “#Jihad’s Social Media Trend,” The AfPak Channel, February 5, 2013.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “The State of Global Jihad Online: A Qualitative, Quantitative, and Cross-Lingual Analysis,” New America Foundation, National Security Studies Program Policy Paper, January 2013.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “The Syrian Islamic Front: A New Extremist Force,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Policy Watch #2030, February 4, 2013.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “The Syrian Islamic Front’s Order of Battle,” al-Wasat, January 22, 2013.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Jihadists on the Nile: The Return of Old Players,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Policy Watch #2016, January 17, 2013.
Aaron Y. Zelin, Andrew Tabler, and Jeff White, “Fallout from the Fall of Taftanaz,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Policy Watch #2015, January 14, 2013.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “The Ghosts of Sinjar in Tripoli and Benghazi,” al-Wasat, January 10, 2013.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Rally ‘Round the Jihadist,” Foreign Policy, December 11, 2012.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “The Rise of Al Qaeda in Syria,” Foreign Policy, December 6, 2012.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Spoiling the Gaza Ceasefire,” The Atlantic, November 24, 2012.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Maqdisi’s disciples in Libya and Tunisia,” Foreign Policy’s Middle East Channel, November 14, 2012.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “The Evolution of the Jihadi Role in the Syrian Rebellion,” al-Monitor, October 18, 2012.
Aaron Y. Zelin and Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, “How the Arab Spring’s Prisoner Releases Have Helped the Jihadi Cause,” The Atlantic, October 11, 2012.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Distinguishing Between Foreign Fighters in Syria,” al-Wasat, September 24, 2012.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Know Your Ansar al-Sharia,” Foreign Policy, September 21, 2012.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “For Each Nation, a Different Approach,” New York Times’ Room For Debate, September 13, 2012.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Jihadism’s Foothold in Libya,” The Washington Institute for Near Policy, Policy Watch #1980, September 12, 2012.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Dodging the drones: How militants have responded to the covert US campaign,” Foreign Policy’s AfPak Channel, August 31, 2012.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Tunisia’s Contentious Transition,” al-Wasat, August 23, 2012.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Assad’s Self-Fulfilling Prophecy,” Pravda Slovakia, August 14, 2012.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Democracy, Salafi Style,” Foreign Policy, July 20, 2012.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Who is Jabhat al-Islah?,” Sada Journal, July 18, 2012.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “al-Farīḍa al-Ghāʾiba and al-Sadat’s Assassination, a 30 Year Retrospective,” International Journal for Arab Studies, Volume 3 Number 2, July 2012.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Purifying Islam and Combating the West: Post Mortem Analysis of the Indelible Impact of al-Qaeda’s Abu Yahya al-Libi,” Jamestown Foundation’s Militant Leadership Monitor, Volume 3 Issue 6, June 2012.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Terror from Sinai: Global Jihadist Groups on Israel’s Doorstep,” The Washington Institute for Near Policy, Policy Alert, June 20, 2012.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Foreign Fighters Trickle into the Syrian Rebellion,” The Washington Institute for Near Policy, Policy Watch #1950, June 11, 2012.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “al-Nur’s Vision for a Future Egypt,” al-Wasat, June 6, 2012.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Syria’s New Jihadis,” Foreign Policy, May 22, 2012.
Aaron Y. Zelin and Andrew Tabler, “Syrian Jihadis: Real and Exaggerated,” The Washington Institute for Near Policy, Policy Watch #1937, May 17, 2012.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Bin Laden’s online legacy,” The Conversation.edu, May 4, 2012.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Missionary at Home, Jihadist Abroad: A Profile of Tunisia’s Abu Ayyad the Amir of Ansar al-Shari‘ah,” Jamestown Foundation’s Militant Leadership Monitor, Volume 3 Issue 4, April 2012.
Aaron Y. Zelin and Erik Churchill, “A Balancing Act: Ennahda’s Struggle with Salafis,” Sada Journal, April 19, 2012.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Tarek Maaroufi: Tunisia’s Most Notorious Jihadist, Returns Home,” Tunisia Live, April 1, 2012.
Aaron Y. Zelin and Andrew Lebovich, “Assessing Al-Qa’ida’s Presence in the New Libya,” CTC Sentinel, Volume 5 Issue 3, March 2012.
Aaron Y. Zelin, Jytte Klausen, Eliane Tschaen Barbieri, and Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, “The YouTube Jihadists: A Social Network Analysis of Al-Muhajiroun’s Propaganda Campaign,” Perspectives on Terrorism, Volume 6 Number 1, March 2012.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “The Call to Islam: Hitin Urdu Magazine Interviews al-Qa’ida’s Head of Da’wah Khalid bin ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Husaynan,” al-Wasat, March 3, 2012.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Jihadi Soft Power in Tunisia: Ansar al-Shari’ah’s Convoy Provides Aid to the Town of Haydrah in West Central Tunisia [WITH PICTURES],” al-Wasat, February 21, 2012.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Signs Beyond Western Eyes: Unpacking The Announcement of the al-Bara’ ibn Malik Martyrs Brigade,” al-Wasat, February 18, 2012.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Free Radical,” Foreign Policy, February 3, 2012.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Jabhat al-Nusrah and Jihad in Syria,” al-Wasat, January 30, 2012.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “An Update to Hegghammer’s Preference-Based Analysis of Islamism,” al-Wasat, January 26, 2012.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “The Salafi Challenge to Tunisia’s Nascent Democracy,” The Washington Institute for Near Policy, Policy Watch #1879, December 8, 2011.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Out of Sight out of Mind: The Battle for Yemen’s North,” al-Wasat, November 25, 2011.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Ennahda’s Tight Rope Act On Religion,” Foreign Policy’s Middle East Channel, November 18, 2011.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “On Flags, Islamic History, and al-Qa’ida,” al-Wasat, November 6, 2011.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Is al-Qa’ida in the Islamic Maghrib Gaining Influence in Libya?,” al-Wasat, November 1, 2011.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “The Arab Spring’s First Real Test of Democracy Arrives in Tunisia,” Foreign Affairs, October 21, 2011.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Samir Khan, American Jihadi,” Foreign Policy, September 30, 2011.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “The Reunification of the Caucasus Emirate,” Central Asia Caucasus Institute Analyst, Volume 13 Issue 16, August 31, 2011.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Neues aus Cyber-Dschihadistan,” Internationale Politik, September/October 2011, 130-133.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “A Review of: Nelly Lahoud. The Jihadis’ Path to Self-Destruction.,“ Terrorism and Political Violence, Volume 23 Issue 4, September 2011, 670-671.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “The Rise of Salafists in Tunisia After the Fall of Ben Ali,” CTC Sentinel, Volume 4 Issue 8, August 2011.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “What’s in a Name: The Death of the al-Qa’ida Brand?,” al-Wasat, August 8, 2011.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “A Review of: Yahya Michot. Muslims Under Non-Muslim Rule: Ibn Taymiyya.,” Terrorism and Political Violence, Volume 23 Issue 3, July 2011, 487-488.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Inchoate Conceptualization of Jihadi Online Media,” al-Wasat, May 31, 2011.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Glückwunsch, Usama, wehe Obama!,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, May 5, 2011.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “The bin Laden aftermath: The Internet jihadis react,” Foreign Policy’s AfPak Channel, May 2, 2011.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “AQIM Statement Hoax?,” al-Wasat, April 4, 2011.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Review of Manuel R. Torres Soriano’s “The Road to Media Jihad- The Propaganda Actions of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb”,” al-Wasat, February 9, 2011.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Jihadists: The Wallflowers of the Tunisian Uprising,” The Atlantic, January 20, 2011.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Revolution Muslim: Downfall or Respite?,” CTC Sentinel, Volume 3 Issue 11-12, November 2010.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Jihadists in Crisis,” The Atlantic, November 24, 2010.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “To Drone, or not to Drone: Yemen Edition,” al-Wasat, November 12, 2010.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Between Memes and Blurred Vision,” al-Wasat, November 2, 2010.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “How We’ve Changed al-Qaeda,” The Atlantic, October 7, 2010.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “What if Obama’s Yemen policy works?,” Foreign Policy’s Middle East Channel, September 22, 2010.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “The Intellectual Origins of al-Qaeda’s Ideology: The Abolishment of the Caliphate through the Afghan Jihād, 1924-1989,” M.A. Thesis, Brandeis University, May 24, 2010.
Aaron Y. Zelin, “Round Seven in Northern Yemen?,” Foreign Policy’s Middle East Channel, April 20, 2010.
Aaron Y. Zelin and Andrew Lebovich, “The Commentators March to War,” Foreign Policy’s Middle East Channel, March 15, 2010.