Sergio Altuna
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Sergio Altuna
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Mostly Islamism. North Africa & Sahel. Narratives and counternarratives. Senior Research Fellow at GWU Program on Extremism
On Nov. 1, federal prosecutors charged two men in an alleged ISIS-inspired plot in #Michigan. The criminal complaint says the suspects regularly shared content from Ahmad Musa Jibril and even sought guidance from his father regarding the planned attack.
November 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
These are the key themes the Program aims to cover. The abstract submission deadline is May 20, 2025.

Authors of accepted/published papers will, of course, receive financial compensation.
April 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM
21 años del #11M. Memoria y dignidad.
Siempre en el recuerdo.
March 11, 2025 at 7:51 AM
#ISKP claimed responsibility for the operation that killed #Taliban's acting minister for refugees, Khalil Rahman Haqqani, and six other people.
December 12, 2024 at 6:36 AM
Viendo que existe cierta confusión al respecto, la bandera blanca que acompaña a la #siria no es ni de Al-Qaeda, ni de Estado Islámico ni de #HTS. Se trata de un estandarte clásico con la profesión de fe islámica en letras negras, similar a la del Emirato Islámico de Afganistán.
December 11, 2024 at 7:27 AM
What a picture... Al-Jawlani at the Umayyad Mosque, #Syria
Had to be seen to be believed!
December 8, 2024 at 3:23 PM
Chad's Government has just ended its defence cooperation agreement with France. After being forced to pull its troops out of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, how long until we see French forces leaving #Chad?
November 29, 2024 at 6:06 AM
Ahmad al-Hamadi, the Qatari preacher in charge of supervising Qatar Charity's funding program (Ghaith) for Islamist projects Worldwide, has passed away.
November 19, 2024 at 6:56 PM
My doctoral thesis is now available online:

"#AQIM's narrative: an analysis of its adaptability and its evolution over time based on corpus linguistics."

You can check it out here:
t.co/syk3WCQRLg
November 19, 2024 at 6:56 PM