Argument: Baghdadi Is Dead But His Legend Lives On

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.

Articles by Aaron Y. Zelin

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

Argument

October 29, 2019, 4:00 PM

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ISIS Is Dead, Long Live the Islamic State

Argument

June 30, 2014, 11:22 PM

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The Vocabulary of Sectarianism

The Middle East Channel

Aaron Y. Zelin, Phillip Smyth

January 29, 2014, 4:57 PM

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Al Qaeda’s Syrian Strategy

Argument

Barak Barfi, Aaron Y. Zelin

October 10, 2013, 5:35 PM

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Libya’s jihadists beyond Benghazi

The Middle East Channel

August 12, 2013, 5:23 PM

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