Category: Articles of the Week

Monday September 10:
Islam and Democracy in Practice: Tunisia’s Ennahdha Nine Months In – Sarah J. Feuer, The Crown Center for Middle East Studies: https://bit.ly/TIKXYh
Wednesday September 12:
Jihadism’s Foothold in Libya – Aaron Y. Zelin, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy: https://bit.ly/SKVpRt
The Wrath of Libya’s Beleaguered Salafis – Fred Wehrey, SadaJournal: https://ow.ly/dFrxv
For Each Nation, a Different Approach – Aaron Y. Zelin, The New York Times: https://nyti.ms/QkKxEe
Jihadi Radicalization of Muslim Clerics – Rich Nielsen, Harvard University: https://bit.ly/OlSJ5f
Thursday September 13: 
Nuanced to Death – J.M. Berger, IntelWire: https://intelwire.net/RN74xL

Monday September 3:
Al-Shabaab And Post-Transition Somalia – Abdi Aynte, African Arguments: https://bit.ly/Upg3Uf
Wednesday September 5:
Jihadists and Post-Jihadists in the Sinai – Omar Ashour, The Middle East Channel: https://bit.ly/RF0Dvs
Thursday September 6:
Wahhabi ideology of social control versus a new publicness in Saudi Arabia – Jonas Otterbeck, Contemporary Islam: https://bit.ly/Q24bXV
Friday September 7:
Tunes of religious resistance? Understanding Hamas music in a conflict context – Carin Berg, Contemporary Islam: bit.ly/NhxaqK 

Thursday August 30: 
Hizb ut Tahrir: Islam’s Ideological Vanguard – Noman Hanif, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies: https://bit.ly/OtYH63
Beyond the Battlefield, Beyond al Qaeda: Destabilizing Legal Architecture of Counterterrorism – Robert Chesney, Michigan Law Review:https://bit.ly/N1ZxsW
Friday August 31:
Dodging the drones: How militants have responded to the covert US campaign – Aaron Y. Zelin, The AfPak Channel: https://bit.ly/NNhI15

Monday August 20:
Terrorism is Terrorism – Rémi Brulin, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/NXNfh6
Tuesday August 21:
The curious case of Colleen LaRose: Social margins, new media, and online radicalization – Jeffry R Halverson and Amy K Way, Media, War & Conflict: https://bit.ly/Ouy8hn
Wednesday August 22:
Attiyat Allah Obituary in Talai’ Khorasan – Yassin Musharbash, AbuSusu Blog: https://bit.ly/PXDtkj
Trying to Understand MUJWA – Andrew Lebovich, al-Wasat: https://bit.ly/NKFDPO
Thursday August 23:
The Strategic Limitations of Boko Haram in Southern Nigeria – Jacob Zenn, CTC Sentinel: https://bit.ly/P2Q5B9
Understanding Drivers of Violent Extremism: The Case of al-Shabab and Somali Youth – Muhsin Hassan, CTC Sentinel: https://bit.ly/OdXRMt

Tuesday August 14:
Assad’s Self-Fulfilling Prophecy – Aaron Y. Zelin, Pravda Slovakia: https://bit.ly/N0i1Fv
Friday August 17:
Fighting Al Qaeda in Yemen? Rethinking the Nature of the Islamist Threat and the Effectiveness of U.S. CT Strategy – Christina Hellmic, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism: https://bit.ly/P2Jzvq
Wahhabism as a Militant Form of Islam on Europe’s Doorstep – Marko Rakic & Dragisa Jurisic, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism: https://bit.ly/N5bcbJ

Sunday August 5:
The Content and Context of Anwar Awlaki’s E-mails with Fort Hood Shooter Nidal Hasan – J.M. Berer, IntelWire: https://bit.ly/OUgcO2
Monday August 6:
Bahraini Salafis Fighting the Infidels Wherever They Find Them – Justin Gengler, Religion and Politics in Bahrain: https://bit.ly/OUgZ1j
Tuesday August 7:
Libya and Islamism: the deeper story – Alison Pargeter, OpenDemocracy: https://bit.ly/Qb7FD6
The Ballads of Global Jihad – Raffaello Pantucci, Hurst Publishers Blog: https://bit.ly/MZ4S0D
Thursday August 9:
Al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood: Alternative Visions of an Islamist Egypt – Andrew McGregor, Terrorism Monitor: https://bit.ly/P87zky
The anti-social network: How al-Qaeda survives – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Adam Elkus, The AfPak Channel: https://bit.ly/QK19I5
The Syrian Rebels’ Libyan Weapon – Mary Fitzgerld, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/QjgsTG

Saturday July 28:
Al-Qaida Advises the Arab Spring: Abu Basir’s Scrapbook – Joas Wagemakers, Jihadica: https://bit.ly/PKR6hb
Monday July 30:
“Takfir” Can Cut Both Ways – Alex Thurston, Sahel Blog: https://bit.ly/PKSqRk
Splitting al-Qa’ida and its affiliates – Dan Byman, AfPak Channel: https://bit.ly/OdXdOS
Tuesday July 31:
Haqqani Network Financing: The Evolution of an Industry – Gretchen Peters, Combatting Terrorism Center: https://bit.ly/NGP8TV
Thursday August 2:
Syria conflict: Jihadists’ role growing – Murad Batal al-Shishani, BBC: https://bbc.in/OLmlMz
The battle for al-Azhar – H. A. Hellyer, Middle East Channel: https://bit.ly/PKVSeL
Friday August 3:
It’s far from safe to say that al-Qaeda is dead – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, National Post: https://natpo.st/OwAuNY 

Monday July 23: The Ghost of Abu Yahya – Harald Doornbos and Jenan Moussa, ForeignPolicy: https://bit.ly/SQEZmZ Tuesday July 24: The unexceptional Islamists – Peter Mandaville, The Middle East Channel: https://bit.ly/OteSOh A Profile of AQAP’s Upper Echelon – Gregory D. Johnsen, CTC Sentinel: https://bit.ly/MOS0dX A Biography of Rashid Rauf: Al-Qa`ida’s British Operative – Raffaello Pantucci, CTC Sentinel: https://bit.ly/LS0Cmq Thursday July 26: Islamic militants take aim at Myanmar – Jacob Zenn, Asia Times: https://bit.ly/QcmIgx Friday July 27: The Pledge of Allegiance and its Implications – Kévin Jackson, Jihadology: bit.ly/O5hEuv Breaking the Bonds Between Al-Qa’ida and Its Affiliate Organizations – Daniel L. Byman, Brookings Institution: bit.ly/LSB4pi

Monday July 16:
Qur’an Verses Study: A Response to Our Critics – Jeffry Halverson, Center for Strategic Communication: https://bit.ly/NwtMpy
How Indonesian Extremists Regroup – International Crisis Group: https://bit.ly/Nn2lRU
Tuesday July 17:
Islamism in the Popular Imagination – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Lauren Morgan, Gunpowder and Lead: https://bit.ly/NFYXMa
Lebanon’s Salafi scarePosted – Geneive Abdo, The Middle East Channel: https://bit.ly/Nn2OU8
Wednesday July 18:
Who is Jabhat al-Islah? -Aaron Y. Zelin, Sada Journal: https://bit.ly/MIyVbL
Thursday July 19:
Learning to Live With the Islamist Winter – Tamara Cofman Wittes, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/NCUkW4
Algeria and the Crisis in Mali – Alexis Arieff, Institut Français des Relations Internationales: https://bit.ly/Nn3mcB
Friday July 20:
Democracy, Salafi Style – Aaron Y. Zelin, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/QguPgr

Monday June 9:
How Islamist Extremists Quote the Qur’an – Jeffry R. Halverson, R. Bennett Furlow, and Steven R. Corman, Center for Strategic Communication at Arizona State: https://bit.ly/LBYjVy
Tuesday June 10:
Syria, where you don’t always get what you want – Brian Fishman, The Middle East Channel: https://bit.ly/N5wbKo
A Study of Knights Under the Banner of the Prophet (2d ed) – Part 10 – Marisa Urgo, Making Sense of Jihad: https://bit.ly/NqGjLg
Wednesday July 11: 
What If There Is No Al-Qaeda? Preparing For Future Terrorism – Clint Watts, Foreign Policy Research Institute: https://bit.ly/Laxthi
Thursday July 12:
Stereotyping Muslims: One Direction’s Zayn Malik, Pop Culture, and the Diversity of Lived Religious Identity – Christopher Anzalone, al-Wasat: https://bit.ly/N5x6dH
Friday July 13:
Testing the Surge: Why Did Violence Decline in Iraq in 2007? – Stephen Biddle, Jeffrey A. Friedman, and Jacob N. Shapiro, International Security: https://bit.ly/NmfNAR
The Terrorism Delusion: America’s Overwrought Response to September 11 – John Mueller and Mark G. Stewart, International Security: https://bit.ly/Nmg1Io
The Jihad Paradox: Pakistan and Islamist Militancy in South Asia – S. Paul Kapur and Sumit Ganguly, International Security: https://bit.ly/LOnXXk