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Contributing writer, . NYT Bestselling Author . Senior Fellow, . Email: hhassan@timep.org

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    18 hours ago

    My new article in , on the British academic who was convicted in the UAE of spying for MI6. Matthew Hedges wasn’t the first & wont be the last, so here is some useful context based on personal experience:

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    Dozens of assassinations, kidnappings and arbitrary arrests of aid workers and activists by HTS in Idlib is forcing prominent members of the civilian opposition to flee to Turkey or N Aleppo

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    10 hours ago

    "Do you think the Americans can defeat the caliphate? It's a war of attrition," an jihadi says. "When the coalition stops the airstrikes, we will return immediately." On the grinding fight with the "" in pocket and IS's "revival" in |

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  4. 10 hours ago

    This piece by captures a key fixation across the Gulf states, with social media: (Background checks are hard to do in the region, so blacklists & entry bans are often based on tweets.)

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  5. 12 hours ago

    “Renewing oath of allegiance” by the ISIS-linked outlet, rather than a request from ISIS. .

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  6. 12 hours ago

    ISIS is asking members/affiliates to “renew the oath of allegiance” to “enrage the infidels.”

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  7. 12 hours ago

    For non-Arabic speakers, Egyptian President Sisi calls for drilling the solid “truth” in people’s minds, which he sums up as follows: “The situation was this way.. we were this way.. and despite it being this way, we went this way. That is the miracle.”

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    كلمة تاريخية و مؤثرة من الرئيس المصري الجنرال عبدالفتاح السيسي!
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  8. 13 hours ago

    Irish woman who married ghost of 300-year-old pirate says they have split up via

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    17 hours ago

    "Academics and journalists walk into a minefield when they conduct work in Arab countries," argues . "To avoid trouble, they first have to realize that many of these countries are less tolerant than they may appear."

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    17 hours ago

    Even in Lebanon - which is supposed to be either ‘free’ or a non-state - this is increasingly an issue. Know your environment and proceed with caution.

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  11. 15 hours ago

    كلمة تاريخية و مؤثرة من الرئيس المصري الجنرال عبدالفتاح السيسي!

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  12. 17 hours ago

    They are different, Bedouin isn’t always synonymous with tribes. Bedouin raids on settled tribes were done by invading nomadic clans. A century ago, my region (Iraqi borders) suffered from that trend, until they had enough.

    I was not interested in responding to what you have mentioned except what you called it ,"the Bedouin Saudis raids" ,aren't the Iraqis, are also Bedouins or you are from Switzerland
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  13. 18 hours ago

    Back to ’s tweet: a few watchers of ISIS have been trying to refute the point you describe as red herring. It’s the conventional wisdom, even if I, you & others find it an obvious point that the ideology formed earlier.

    "ISIS was born, took root & was entrenched well b4 War." That's about as red as a red herring can get! That the ideology of ISIS existed b4 03 is no surprise. But it was 03 that provided the enabling environmnt 2 turn the fantasies of a lunatic fringe into gruesome reality.
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  14. 18 hours ago

    So I don’t know if I should argue the point about pre-2003 more or less. I urge everyone to read the article carefully. Zarqawi didn’t creat the ideology; it formed before him in Iraq & he was influenced by it. See & comments:

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  15. 18 hours ago

    In the radio interview, I address the role the 2003 invasion played in this equation. It enabled a *breakthrough* for Salafism in Iraq when it was historically opposed on a grassroots level (in part because it was associated with old Saudi/Bedouin raids)

    An hour-long radio interview about the true origins of ISIS, and why it matters to shatter the simplistic conventional wisdom. Also, discussed broader topics like extremism, the situation in Syria and…
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  16. 18 hours ago

    Hooray! I actually agree with here: it shouldn’t be a controversial point at all, as other real scholars I quoted suggested; also 100% agree the war enabled a few to dominate & endure, but I focus on how the specifics of the ideology formed pre-2003 & pre-Zarqawi 1/2

    "ISIS was born, took root & was entrenched well b4 War." That's about as red as a red herring can get! That the ideology of ISIS existed b4 03 is no surprise. But it was 03 that provided the enabling environmnt 2 turn the fantasies of a lunatic fringe into gruesome reality.
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  17. Dec 8

    “Americans, over the past year, have gotten relatively good at discussing the emotional effects of sexual abuse; they remain, however, much less good at discussing its professional effects.”

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  18. Dec 8

    “The man misbehaves, the woman gets blamed for it. Her reputation is compromised; her career is stymied; she is branded as difficult; he is simply a man being a man.”

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  19. Dec 8

    Very few of them are Syrians. Lots of them are Iraqi fighters with their families.

    True dat. I dread to think of what happens to Iraq attack metrics if even half of them relocated to Nineveh or Kirkuk. Wonder if they are mainly Syrians who would not leave.
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  20. Dec 8

    Making President Trump’s Bed: A Housekeeper Without Papers

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