Mcclatchy article by Hannah Allam quoting ICSVE Director, Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. April 7, 2016 BY HANNAH ALLAM HALLAM@MCCLATCHYDC.COM Mohamad Jamal Khweis, a 26-year-old from Virginia, as he appeared in an interview with Kurdistan24 television after he defected from the Islamic…
AlterNet article quoting ICSVE Director Anne Speckhard By Maya Hilel April 6, 2016 Pushing back against the institutionalization of Islamophobia. With increasing attention on Western ISIL fighters, a new topic has emerged: Muslim women being recruited to fight alongside the…
Allahu Akbar!" [Allah is Greater!] Mubin Shaikh Called out after hearing that two planes had struck the World Trade Center. born and raised in Canada, educated in Public Schools by Day, and Islamic Madrassa by evening - where hitting the…
PRI radio interview featuring ICSVE Deputy Director Ahmet Yayla and Director, Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. by Rasha Elass April 04, 2016 download Listen to the story. When Syrian teenager Omar ran away from his family, he had no idea what was…
Huffington Post article by ICSVE Deputy Director Ahmet S. Yayla and Director, Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. April 01, 2016 In February of 2015, Iraqi Ambassador Mohamed Alhakim requested the UN Security Council to investigate the deaths of 12 doctors in Mosul,…
ISIS Continues to Agitate for European Attacks: Is Germany Next? ISIS has issued a statement on the Brussels attacks sharing the pictures of two perpetrators of the Brussels airport attacks, Brothers Khalid El Bakraoui, on the left, and Ibrahim El…
Do the Terrorists Who Blow Themselves Up Even Know Why they are Doing it? When ISIS attacks—such as those just witnessed in Paris, and now Brussels—occur with such horrific violence the prevailing questions pervading the immediate surrounds and also circling…
Brussels Terrorist Attacks at Airport and European Parliament Brussels attacks. I was headed out to the Zaventum, Brussels airport this morning but was stopped by panic calls received from friends—some in tears—as I was about to take my taxi. Explosions…
In the past two decades I have interviewed almost five hundred terrorists, extremists, and in the case of dead suicide terrorists—their family members, close associates or hostages. These interviews have taken place in Europe, North America, Turkey, Russia and the…
WGN Radio interview of ICSVE Director Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. by Roe Conn Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. is Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University, Director of the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE) and author of “Talking…