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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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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
A terrorism expert on BBC starts with good analysis then says "sunni muslims behead people, shiite muslims don't." Wow!
May 22
Theresa May on the despicable act in #Woolwich: "There is a strong indication that it was an act of terrorism."
@hahellyer @usislam Coming! And looking forward to #USIslam13 too.
May 21
@SameralAtrush Not yet. Still in the UK. Should be around in late June. Keep me posted with ur travel plans.
@SameralAtrush brilliant question/remarks @ presidency today. Good reminder of the gap between journalism n "journalism" in #Egypt. Sigh.
May 20
RT @tcwittes: #Erdoğan: Tuesday #Turkey made final loan paymt to #IMF & now may loan money back to them. @BrookingsFP
May 17
Hoping to see the day when #Jaafari is beside #Bashar in the #ICC. But then is it really fair to try him "fairly"?! #syria
May 15
RT @SimaDiab: #Jaafari should stop trying to cover the horns on his head and just pull out his pitchfork already. We all know what he is. #Syria
The wonders of the #Nour Party. "Shias are more dangerous than naked women: Egypt Salafi MPs http://t.co/WqXKjq2R7T” via @SultanAlQassemi
May 14
@humababuna not yet. But will start watching it :).
May 13
RT @NoraYounis: إيهاب الخراط: لجنة تقصي الحقائق تعاملت مع فترة زمنية قصيرة بعد الثورة ولا توجد جهة تتعامل مع ال٣٠ سنة الماضية #العدالة_الانتقالية
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
MSNBC: Those running in the marathon were often doing so to help charities, victims of tragedies like Newtown. #Boston
Apr 16
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