The recent terrorist attacks in Paris, France that claimed 17 lives sent shock waves around the world and heightened concerns about growing tensions between Islamic extremists and the West.
Aaron Zelin, is an expert on global jihadist groups, and he researches global terrorist organizations such as ISIS, how they operate and how they are changing.
Zelin is the Richard Borow fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He is a frequent contributor to The Atlantic, Foreign Policy and Foreign Affairs, and is the author of the New America Foundation’s 2013 study, “The State of the Global Jihad Online.”
Zelin independently maintains the widely cited website Jihadology.net, which is a clearinghouse for Sunni jihadi primary source material. He also is a Ph.D. candidate at King's College of London and a fellow at its associated International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence.
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