Co-Founder, @Ex_Trac | PhD, @warstudies | Associate/Fellow: @ICCT_TheHague, @resolvenet & @I_W_M | Books: The ISIS Reader, The Terrorist Image
Joined July 2013
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11 Sep 2025
We're hiring two key positions in my (amazing!) team at ExTrac.
Deputy Head of Research and Analysis
- Link to app:
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Senior Analyst (Arabic Speaker)
- Link to app:
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21 Aug 2025
We’re hiring a bunch of new roles at ExTrac, from Analyst and Senior Analyst to Deputy Head of Research.
Take a look at the careers page on extrac.ai and submit an application if you want to jump on board!
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1 May 2025
Here’s a link to my interview about the work we do at ExTrac AI in this month’s edition of the @CTCWP Sentinel.
Thanks @CruickshankPaul and everyone at Team Sentinel - it was a real honour to do this in one of my all-time favourite publications!
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25 Jul 2024
ExTrac is hiring a new Senior Analyst.
Do take a look and make sure to apply if the role sounds up your street!
(All we need at this stage is a CV.)
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23 Dec 2023
We’re hiring a new Head of Research.
Take a look and send in an app!
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30 Aug 2023
Happy to have contributed article to
@CTCWP's Sentinel journal on post-Abu Ibrahim Islamic State (IS) 'caliphs',highlighting their obscurity but also how this hasn't broken IS's ranks.Also my first CTC article as an Associate of the Royal Schools of Music! ctc.westpoint.edu/caliphs-of…
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1 Jun 2023
Finally got a hardcopy of my study on Islamic State in Deraa co-authored with @charliewinter and published at the Hudson Institute's Current Trends in Islamist Ideology journal!
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22 May 2023
Lake Chad Basin Weekly Security Update 15-21 May 2023: More ISWAP suicide bombers targeting the military, a humanitarian worker rescued after four years, and a suspicious explosion in Taraba. chroniclesoflakechad.substac…
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11 May 2023
🧵Thread 1/ Does a reply on Twitter from @elonmusk help amplify misleading information? While common sense tells us yes, facts & figures are helpful!
In this thread, I explore to what extent Musk's endorsement of a misleading and racist tweet from @endwokeness helped amplify it
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29 Apr 2023
We’re detecting events in real time, so if the ceasefire collapses, it’ll trigger a surge alert so you can know when, where, and how it happened.
If you’re an organisation that's aiding evacuation efforts or you have staff at risk, get in touch. Free access during the crisis.
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28 Apr 2023
It's finally up! My new long study for Current Trends in Islamist Ideology w/@charliewinter on Islamic State in Deraa province. Includes revisiting the group's earlier history in the area,killing of the group's last 'caliph', & some graphics on attack data hudson.org/islamic-state-der…
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26 Apr 2023
We're helping to support evacuation efforts from #Sudan.
If you have staff at risk, get in touch. Free access during the crisis.
DM me for more info.
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26 Apr 2023
A few myth busting thoughts on the UK’s evacuation operation in Sudan: 1. The UK reacted as quickly (if not quicker in some areas) in standing up a evacuation force. 2. It will have to operate for longer and have greater capacity than other Nations with smaller national numbers.
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4 Apr 2023
In the next Insight in our Telegram mini-series, @Abdullahrhmoun, @charliewinter and @janos_kertesz shed light on how the Islamic State (IS) exploits bots on Telegram to coordinate sympathisers, curate their community, and amplify their propaganda. buff.ly/3K1kvcL
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24 Feb 2023
Come to my book talk on Monday, if you’re around in London.
It’s a cross-topic event with colleagues at @KCStratComms tracing the shifting significance of strategic communication in the context of #IS, #Russia, and #China.
(And there’s wine.)
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17 Feb 2023
🧵1. This is an analysis of 30,000 tweets spreading disinformation about the #TurkeySyriaEarthquake . The #disinformation in question is the false story that 8-10 Western countries withdrew their ambassadors before the earthquake. The analysis indicates manipulation
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31 Jan 2023
Wild rumors from Kabul are reaching a fever pitch: top leaders being sacked, soft coups being plotted, internal discord. Will begin to percolate in media soon.
This is important moment to remember how little we know - and how little is even possible to learn - about the Taliban.
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20 Jan 2023
Today I received my passport w/a US visa stamped inside it!!Please share my free post where I discuss my experience w/mandamus lawsuit that led to issuing of my visa. I offer advice for anyone w/visitor visa application stuck in 'administrative processing' aymennaltamimi.substack.com/…
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