Nihad Aboud نهاد عبود

🚨 Publication Alert 🚨 My first solo article is out! "A Quest for Legitimacy: Drivers of Organizational Affiliation with Global Jihadist Networks" @journalofgss.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jogss/ogag016 Short Summary 👇

It is also really concerning that all this crackdown on press freedom is happening at the same time where Egypt declares military support for Saudi Arabia after Houthi attacks!

Lina Attalah still in custody after Mada Masr pays fine!

In an absolutely egregious escalation against press freedom, Egyptian journalist and Mada Masr Editor-in-Chief Lina Attalah has been referred to trial on charges of establishing, managing, and operating a website without a license. Her trial is set to begin this Tuesday, October 27.

Netanyahu now pledges to destroy the entire neighbourhood of the gunmen and to ethnically cleanse its population

أنا صمتي ما هوش خوف أنا صدري كالبركان وإن كان هواكي خطية ومحبتك عصيان أصرخ في أخر المدى وأعلنها ليكي الآن إن لم أحبك أنا أنا لا أكون إنسان #مصر #غربة_و_غرابة

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12 people have been arrested as part of an investigation into a suspected extreme right-wing terror plot against an Islamic gathering in Suffolk The UK Ijtima, which hosted 15,000 Muslims for a programme of talks and discussions, was closed and evacuated by police on Sunday

Why do armed groups use extreme forms of violence? Excited to share this new open access article! Analyzing beheading attacks conducted by jihadist groups, we examine the impact of leadership succession, targeting, and tenure on organizational tactics academic.oup.com/jogss/articl...

New article! "When Do Sanctions On Terrorist Groups Work?" with Hyeran Jo and Joshua Alley. A few key points: -Sanctions like the FTO list do not seem to reduce the violence of most FTOs -We look at group "financial adaptability." Only low- or medium-adaptability groups seem affected by sanctions

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

For the last 69 years, Israel has held the West Bank and Gaza under military occupation, where local Palestinian residents have no civic rights. A very long time. -more than a third of the world's nation states are younger than 69. -East Germany or Apartheid South Africa survived less than 50 years

Reviewers in two groups were given identical resumes for Emily Clarke and James Clarke and told they had used AI. Emily's was 2x as likely to raise doubts about competence. "She can't even write a CV herself." But James "just needed a bit of help." fortune.com/2026/05/10/i...

The men who killed three people at the San Diego mosque, terrorizing communities, apparently had neo-Nazi views. Part of a trend. But the US counterterrorism strategy released recently doesn’t even mention that kind of threat. Instead it focuses on drug cartels, Islamists, and leftists/anarchists.

Essex local election results. Wivenhoe (University of Essex) is a small yellow (Lib Dems) part in the sea of teal (Nigel Farage’s Reform).

ايه يا بلاد يا غريبة… عدوة ولا حبيبة

Apocalyptic aerial footage from east Gaza City.

Economic tipping points are notoriously hard to forecast, but the next one is likely approaching. For several Asian economies in the near term, and for Europe down the road, if the Middle East War remains unresolved, the shock is moving quickly toward physical energy scarcity. This... 1 of 2

A new study reveals that the natural selection of valuable genetic variants has played a much more influential role in human evolution than was previously thought

"Israel will not be bombing Lebanon any longer. They are PROHIBITED from doing so by the U.S.A. Enough is enough!!!" This is a departure from the one-sided cease fire negotiated by the Biden administration, when Israel bombed (generously-defined) "threats" as it pleased and Hezbollah held back.

“Civilians feared killed after reports of Nigerian air strike on Nigerian market” Ah air strikes, solving everything Civilians feared killed after reports of air strike on Nigerian market www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I've completely lost track of what I'm supposed to be distracted from.

Earthset from Artemis II. I am overcome.

A reminder that no matter where we are, how far away we can get, we ll always be bound by our lived experiences www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1Cw...

Priceless inspiration amidst the horrors of this world www.reuters.com/pictures/art...

Alarming news from Egypt where activist and poet Ahmed Douma has been ordered into detention for four days in Case No. 2449 of 2026 before the Supreme State Security Prosecution. He's being accused of spreading false news in relation to an article he published with Al-Araby Al-Jadeed last month.

Oh hey there, void, how's the screaming

Thinking about Iran, and some people bragging about the metric of the number of targets hit or bombs dropped. Random reminder: the U.S. dropped more bombs on North Vietnam than all the bombs dropped by all sides in World War II. Didn't work out in the end.

An Egyptian poet once wrote something, the translation of which could be: “What is my art good for? Asked a clown.. And three buckets of powder to color me.. And the drums and flutes and all the shouting.. If my customer's madness exceeds my own?!”

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