Aaron Y. Zelin

Aaron Y. Zelin is the Richard Borow fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a visiting research scholar at Brandeis University. He is the founder of the widely cited website Jihadology and the author of the forthcoming book Your Sons Are At Your Service: Tunisia’s Missionaries of Jihad.

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Indian Shiite Muslim demonstrators burn an image of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi during a protest in New Delhi on June 9, 2017.
Indian Shiite Muslim demonstrators burn an image of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi during a protest in New Delhi on June 9, 2017.

Baghdadi Is Dead But His Legend Lives On

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ISIS Is Dead, Long Live the Islamic State

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The Vocabulary of Sectarianism

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Aaron Y. Zelin, Phillip Smyth
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Al Qaeda’s Syrian Strategy

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Barak Barfi, Aaron Y. Zelin
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Libya’s jihadists beyond Benghazi

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The crowning of the Syrian Islamic Front

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Aaron Y. Zelin, Charles Lister
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Meeting Tunisia’s Ansar al-Sharia

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Uncharitable Organizations

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#Jihad’s social media trend

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Rally ‘Round the Jihadist

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The Rise of Al Qaeda in Syria

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Maqdisi’s disciples in Libya and Tunisia

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Know Your Ansar al-Sharia

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Dodging the drones: How militants have responded to the covert US campaign

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Democracy, Salafi Style

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