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Nonresident Fellow, Foreign Policy, Brookings Doha Center
Omar Ashour is a nonresident fellow at the Brookings Doha Center. His research focuses on jihadism, democratization, security sector reform and civil-military relations, armed conflict, and Islamist movements and ideologies in North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. He is a lecturer in politics and director of the Middle East Politics Graduate Studies Program at the University of Exeter. He is the author of The De-Radicalization of Jihadists: Transforming Armed Islamist Movements.
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Opinion | Al Arabiya English
March 3, 2013
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Opinion | Al Monitor
February 25, 2013
Opinion | Project Syndicate
January 25, 2013
December 21, 2012
December 3, 2012
BDC-Stanford Paper | Brookings Doha Center
November 19, 2012
Opinion | Gulf Times
September 16, 2012
September 15, 2012
Opinion | Foreign Policy
September 5, 2012
Opinion | The Project Syndicate
August 7, 2012
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Omar Ashour
On the popularity of Jabhat al #Nusra in #Syria :http://t.co/Og4KNHqi79
May 07
رد نظام "الممانعة" وميلشيا "المقاومة" على الضربة الاسرائيلية سيكون بذبح المزيد من أطفال #سوريا. انظروا للقصير. #fb
May 05
Obama "focus on security rather than on 70k deaths suggests outdated n morally problematic policy" @shadihamid #syria http://t.co/nBvO1980MB
Apr 27
سلاحهم في وجه الشعب السوري وظهورهم للقدس والجولان. مصرع 18 من ميليشيا "حزب الله" في القصير بحسب فرع لجان التنسيق هناك. ميتة العار. #سوريا
Apr 23
RT @batirw: The whole world has discovered #Chechnya today. The same world did not give a damn when #Grozny was destroyed by Russian Army few yrs ago
Apr 19
@muradbatal think Ilyas akhmadov needs to make a statement! Yermolov's "Good Chechen is dead Chechen" seems to b z stance of some of z media
@MatthewDoye almost no connection except general sympathy n handful of irrelevant volunteers. But z mass-murderer in syria ll try capitalise
#Putin n #Bashar r probably smiling at the fact that #BostonBombing suspects r Chechens. Cant count how many ways ethnicity ll b manipulated
RT @vboykis: I'm a Russian speaker and I watched a movie about Chechnya once so I'm qualified to make a CNN appearance at this point.
MSNBC: Those running in the marathon were often doing so to help charities, victims of tragedies like Newtown. #Boston
Apr 16
RT @jricole: Can the Boston Bombings increase our Sympathy for Iraq and Syria, for all such Victims? http://t.co/ilS7Rs1qFf
Thoughts and prayers with #Boston victims and their families. A sad day in a beautiful, friendly city.
RT @mshinqiti: نعم ما فعلوا: إسلاميو الجيش الحر يرفضون البيعة لتنظيم القاعدة رhttp://t.co/sHWV1xvEjn
Apr 14
#Syria: Alleged audio of Abu Muhammad Julani, rejecting the claims of #ISI, declaring allegiance to #Zawahiri http://t.co/tcoLGceJwl
Apr 10
...and the only access from the west to #Egypt Parliament is via this hole! 2/2 http://t.co/AOIu3W0QGd
Went to #Egypt parliament today and the only access from the south is via this store! 1/2 http://t.co/eo4EsxH3di
Old, untreated wounds festering #Egypt
Apr 07
يعني اول مااوصل من تونس الاقي شخص أيد #مبارك و عادى الثورة حتى ٩ فبراير ٢.١١ يكلمنا الآن عن "خطايا الثورة." #الرحمة #cbc #fb
Apr 01
@tradwan sure tarek.
Mar 26
@shadihamid @CynicalIslamist key is to identify z type of spoiler n its capacity.There is an "intel failure"in that area, possibly by will.
Mar 23
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