by Anne Speckhard, Ph.D., Grace Wakim Get the PDF Allah Akbar (meaning God is Greatest) is a colloquial expression commonly used by Muslims, especially in the Arab world, to praise God and express commitment to the religion of Islam. Muslims…
Lorand Bodo, M.A. & Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. Download PDF Introduction Telegram currently is, for a plethora of reasons, the favorite encrypted social media app employed by ISIS.[1] As such, Telegram has become the subject of deep controversies in the West.…
By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. & Ahmet S. Yayla, Ph.D. ICSVE is proud to announce the release of The Glorious Martyrs of the Islamic State, another new video clip in the Breaking the ISIS Brand--ISIS Defectors Counter-Narrative Project, a project aimed at using ISIS…
PDF here by Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. Director, ICSVE and Non-Resident Fellow of Trends & Ardian Shajkovci, Ph.D. Director of Research/Senior Research Fellow at the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE) During the 2016 campaign and in the early months…
Significance of the new video, “Advice for Martyrdom-Seekers in the West” By Ahmet S Yayla Al Qaeda has stepped out of the shadow of Islamic State, promoting its brand of terror with a new leader and a comprehensive…
by Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. PDF here Most experts agree that the most successful counter-messaging campaigns against ISIS are the ones that utilize the voices of insiders: the voices of ISIS victims and ISIS cadres themselves who have first-hand knowledge of…
Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. Abu Abdullah, a Syrian ISIS defector, was interviewed in Turkey by the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism's Ahmet S. Yayla and Anne Speckhard after he escaped from ISIS. Today we release the edited video clip…
By Ahmet S. Yayla & Anne Speckhard Download the PDF ISIS has been the most successful terrorist organization in history using social media and the Internet for distributing its propaganda, dissemination of its news and more importantly to communicate. There…
