Omar Ashour is a British-Canadian security and military studies professor and a martial arts champion. He is Associate Professor of Security Studies in the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, the Founding Director of the Critical Security Studies Graduate Program (MCSS) and the director of the Strategic Studies Unit in the Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies. He was previously Director of the Middle East Graduate Studies Programme at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter (UK). He is a specialist on Islamist movements and ideologies, democratization, terrorism and insurgency, and strategic studies. He is the author of How ISIS Fights: Military Tactics in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt and The DeradicalizationOmar Ashour is a British-Canadian security and military studies professor and a martial arts champion. He is Associate Professor of Security Studies in the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, the Founding Director of the Critical Security Studies Graduate Program (MCSS) and the director of the Strategic Studies Unit in the Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies. He was previously Director of the Middle East Graduate Studies Programme at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter (UK). He is a specialist on Islamist movements and ideologies, democratization, terrorism and insurgency, and strategic studies. He is the author of How ISIS Fights: Military Tactics in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt and The Deradicalization of Jihadists: Transforming Armed Islamist Movements....more