Omar Ashour

Nonresident Fellow, Foreign Policy, Brookings Doha Center
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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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Resources

Expertise

  • Jihadism
  • democratization, de-radicalization
  • Islamist movements and ideologies
  • Salafism
  • terrorism and political violence
  • security sector reform and civil-military relations
  • Egypt
  • Libya
  • Tunisia
  • Algeria
  • Afghanistan
  • Chechnya
  • Tajikistan

Experience

Current Positions

  • Nonresident fellow, Brookings Doha Center
  • Senior Lecturer in Middle East Politics and Security, University of Exeter
  • Director, Middle East Politics Graduate Studies Program, University of Exeter

Past Positions

  • Visiting fellow, Brookings Doha Center
    Lecturer in Political Science, McGill University, Montreal

Education

  • B.S., M.A., American University in Cairo
    Ph.D, McGill University

Language Fluency

  • Arabic
  • English
  • French

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