PRI interview quoting ICSVE Director Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. April 12, 2016 download "I made a bad decision." That's how 26-year-old Mohamad Jamal Khweis described the time he traveled from his home in Virginia to Iraq to join ISIS. Last month, the Kurdish…
Mcclatchy article by Hannah Allam quoting ICSVE Director, Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. April 7, 2016 BY HANNAH ALLAM [email protected] 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…
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,…
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…
WTSP television interview of ICSVE Director Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. by Kendra Colon March 22, 2016 Author: Kendra ConlonPublished: 11:40 PM EDT March 22, 2016Updated: 11:40 PM EDT March 22, 2016 Sirens are heard on the streets of Brussels after ISIS claims terrorist fighters…
Sydney Morning Herald article quoting ICSVE Director, Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. By Matthew Hall March 12, 2016 Amid strained relations between the US government and global tech companies over how to best counter terrorism, a leading academic has called for Twitter…
Sydney Morning Herald article quoting research by ICSVE Deputy Director Ahmet S. Yayla and Director, Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. By Matthew Hall March 12, 2016 New York: Syrian defectors from Islamic State – including top commanders and a child groomed to be…
Jewish Journal article quoting ICSVE Director Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. by Veronique de Rugy March 2, 2016 We all intuitively understand that if your friend loses his house in a hurricane, the right thing to do is to invite him to…