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Postdoctoral researcher ( @UniOslo ) & Associate senior researcher ( @sciencespo ) Author: A History of Palestinian Islamic Jihad ( @cambridgeup )

Oslo, Norge
Joined September 2014
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My two books about Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) are now both out in paperback! A History of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (Cambridge UP): Palestinian Islamic Jihad: Islamist Writings (I. B. Tauris):
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You do not need a PhD in Middle Eastern studies to identify and denounce injustice. What is happening now in Palestine is the result of decades of occupation, deprivation, and oppression of the Palestinians.
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I would highly recommend the following books if you want to learn more about Hamas, its history, and its ideology: 1. I think Jeroen Gunning’s Hamas in Politics is one of, if not the, best book about the movement.
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[THREAD] I am delighted to announce my two forthcoming books: A History of Palestinian Islamic Jihad: Faith, Awareness, and Revolution in the Middle East ( @CambridgeUP ) and Palestinian Islamic Jihad: Islamist Writings on Resistance and Religion ( @ibtauris ).
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Journalists have asked about Palestinian Islamic Jihad and what future state it envisions. Incidentally, I have written an (open access) article comparing the political theory of Fathi al-Shiqaqi (PIJ) and Jamal Mansur (Hamas):
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It is normal for Hamas and Islamic Jihad to refer to their fighters killed in regular action as “martyrdom seekers” (استشهادي). It does not require a suicide bombing. In many martyr biographies, they are referred to as both martyrdom seeker and martyr (شهيد).
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Johannes Saal
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1) To my knowledge, yesterday's "martyrdom" operation on Gaza City's Rantisi Hospital would be the first suicide bombing (SB) attack by Hamas or other Palestinian terrorist groups since 15 years.🧵
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Currently reading Carr’s What is History? in which a typo has made every instance of “fact” into “fart”, and it is just a wonderful read!!
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🚨(open access) publication alert🚨 My article “Texts or Praxes: How Do We Best Understand Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad After October 7?” has finally been published by CTC Sentinel! A short 🧵🧵
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3 years
I am delighted to say that my book A History of Palestinian Islamic Jihad ( @CambridgeUP ) will be published tomorrow! Preorder it here (or just order it tomorrow):
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Erik Skare
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And if you want to learn a little bit about Hamas from the perspective of its “little sister” Palestinian Islamic Jihad, why not check out my own book: A History of Palestinian Islamic Jihad?
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3 years
It’s finally here 🥳🥳 My sincere gratitude to @EditorSophie and @YasminGarcha at @ibtauris , the reviewers, and everyone who helped me throughout this project!
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Erik Skare
3 years
So very honored to receive the Palestine Book Awards ( @palestineawards ) for my book A History of Palestinian Islamic Jihad ( @CambridgeUP )! My sincere gratitude to the judges and to Eugene Rogan who was a wonderful moderator.
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3 years
My two books on Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) are now both out for sale! A History of Palestinian Islamic Jihad ( @CambridgeUP ): Palestinian Islamic Jihad: Islamist Writings ( @ibtauris ):
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3 years
Short🧵:My article “Controlling the State in the Political Theory of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad” has finally been published in the journal Religions ( @MDPIOpenAccess )!
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2 years
My article “Affluent and Well-Educated? Analyzing the Socioeconomic Backgrounds of Fallen Palestinian Islamist Militants” is finally out in the latest issue of @MiddleEastJrnl . A short thread 🧵:
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3 years
Submitting a journal article for review:
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5. Tareq Baconi’s Hamas Contained is helpful for understanding how Hamas got where it is today.
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3 years
Books I’m looking forward to reading (in no particular order): 1) How ISIS Fights ( @EdinburghUP ) by @DrOmarAshour ().
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2 years
Some thoughts about the recent developments in Gaza and the West Bank. As @dbgreenwald notes, this is clearly a confrontation between Islamic Jihad and Israel.
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3 years
I’m delighted to announce that my article “Controlling the State in the Political Theory of Hamas and [PIJ]” has been accepted for publication in the special issue of Religions “Islamist Movements in the Middle East”. Will share link once published and online.
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“Proofs, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of proofs in the morning.” - Kilgore (probably)
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A Gazan mother mourning the killing of her only son. This is the very real consequences of the bombings of Gaza.
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3 years
I had to make one, too
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I remember when I was in Gaza in 2013 and my hosts asked me if I wanted to see the tunnels. Obviously, I accepted, we got in the car, and drove from the apartment close to al-Maghazi.
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Erik Skare
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2. Check out Azzam Tamimi’s Hamas: Unwritten Chapters for the history of the movement.
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Analytically, I always found it weird designating a movement liquidating Lebanese communists in the 1980s as a part of the Global Left. These are conservative movements, and this conclusion likely comes from reducing leftism to anti-Americanism.
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Intellectual insanity Judith Butler: "Hamas and Hezbollah are social movements that are progressive and are part of the Global Left"
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I had a really nice conversation with @KacperRekawek at @ICCT_TheHague about Palestinian Islamic Jihad, its history, and what it stands for:
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Erik Skare
3 years
Author copies finally arrived 🥳🥳🥳 Incredible feeling after years of hard work! Buy the book here:
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3 years
[THREAD] As A History of Palestinian Jihad is published by @CambridgeUP in a couple of weeks, I want to give a shout-out to some of the books/authors that influenced me and the writing process (and not just the literature on Islamism).
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3. Shaul Mishal & Avraham Sela’s The Palestinian Hamas adds to the analysis of Hamas’ thought and practice
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Erik Skare
5 years
Ellen Meiksins Wood is one of the intellectuals and scholars for which I had the greatest admiration. Time and again I return to her magnificent Liberty & Property ( @VersoBooks ), which I cannot recommend enough! Not merely for the findings, but for her method of inquiry.
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Celebrating my first “minor revisions” for an article with a beer in Paris. What a feeling!
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The best thing with academia is that you’re young and promising until your mid-fifties.
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4. Khaled Hroub’s Hamas: Political Thought and Practice is obviously a classic
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Erik Skare
4 years
I finally defended my doctoral thesis on the history of Palestinian Islamic Jihad. My gratitude goes to my terrific opponents Katerina Dalacoura and Khaled Hroub. I could not have done it without the help and support of my supervisors Dag Tuastad, @Hegghammer and @brynjarlia
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3 years
I wrote a piece for @lawfareblog about Palestinian Islamic Jihad and why it has grown the last years:
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Erik Skare
3 years
And last, for anyone working on their PhD thesis or master’s thesis etc. Read Authoring A PhD by @PJDunleavy . I have no idea how I would’ve managed without it. It should be your bible.
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Erik Skare
1 year
Reminds me of the time I taught a class for 10 minutes before the actual lecturer came and told me I was in the wrong room.
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Joseph Mullins
1 year
Today, nobody showed up to my 8.15am class. 0 students of about 40. Sitting in the empty room, I email them, trying to disguise my hurt feelings. 2 mins later, I get a reply: "Professor, we think you might be in the wrong room." So anyway off I go to live in a hole forever.
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With everything happening in Afghanistan, don’t forget our Taliban Sources Project. TSP is an online repository containing thousands of Taliban documents from the 1990s & 2000s in original & translation.
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Thomas Hegghammer
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BIG NEWS: The Taliban Sources Project is now live. TSP is an online repository containing thousands of Taliban documents from the 1990s & 2000s in original & translation. The largest such archive in existence, it offers unique insights at a crucial time
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Very pleased to be publishing this article for @ecfr exploring Iran's historical and evolving relations with Palestinian armed groups, from the PLO to Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
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4 years
You get a 20% discount on my forthcoming book A History of Palestinian Islamic Jihad ( @CambridgeUP ) if you preorder it before 31 December.
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We talk almost exclusively about the tunnels as a part of the battlefield. But they have also had a civilian purpose for a people under siege. While strengthening a Hamas taxing the smuggler economy, the tunnels have rightly been described as the lifeline of Gaza.
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So I just spoke with one of the leaders in Islamic Jihad about the hostages who noted that “we [PIJ] are now following up through our brothers [Hamas] on all the details, and all the resistance factions are working to complete this exchange deal for all Israeli civilian hostages”
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Erik Skare
3 years
Finally got the chance to read @RaphLefevre ’s Jihad In The City. What an absolutely stunning piece of research - highly recommended!
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If this is true then it would be the first international Hamas operation, as far as I know. I can’t see how Hamas would not splinter on the question of international terrorism.
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Monica Marks
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Concerning development: “4 ppl have been arrested in Germany & Netherlands on suspicion of a cross-border Hamas terrorism plot that aimed to target Jewish institutions in Europe. 3 others were arrested in Denmark on apparently related terrorism offences.”
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Erik Skare
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Finally had the chance to read the phenomenal The Caravan by @Hegghammer ! Cannot recommend it enough. Not just a history of Azzam, but of the broader developments in the Middle East.
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Erik Skare
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I am happy to say that A History of Palestinian Islamic Jihad will be out in February 2021 (not July) due to the industrious editor team at @CambridgeUP - @MariaSoleMarsh , @AtifaJiwa , and Lisa Carter
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Erik Skare
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🚨 (Open access) Article alert🚨 My article “Staying safe by being good? The EU’s normative decline as a security actor in the Middle East has finally been published by @EJIntSec - ! Short thread 🧵
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Great piece by Nathan J. Brown “There Might Be No Day After in Gaza”: “ … it is a mistake for scenarios to assume a “day after” as if this were a conventional war that will clearly and cleanly give way to agreed or imposed postwar arrangements.”
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Erik Skare
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Just finished @annestenersen 's breathtaking al-Qaida in Afghanistan ( @CambridgeUP ). I cannot recommend it enough to everyone!
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Erik Skare
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The first draft of anything is shit. - Ernest Hemmingway. So don’t get it right, get it written. Then start the revision process.
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What is your advice for aspiring writers?
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Erik Skare
4 years
I dag er @Klassekampen god! Følger opp den viktige varslersaken til @LailaMakboul og med strålende essay av Fløgstad i bokmagasinet.
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Warmly recommended! Vidar Skretting’s new article “The Islamic Emirate of Azawad Revisited”:
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Most important take here: Hamas leaders "quietly admit[ted] that continued restraint in exchange for economic benefits and suitcases of Qatari cash was putting them in the same trap that ensnared the Palestinian Authority early on."
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1 year
Excited to receive the paperback version of Palestinian Islamic Jihad: Islamist Writings on Resistance and Religion ( @ibtauris )!
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Bit embarrassing coming so late to the party, but inspired by @Hegghammer ’s The Caravan ( @CambridgeUP ), I finally read @strickvl and Kuehn’s An Enemy We Created ( @HurstPublishers ). Such a great read and meticulously researched!
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Now, I realize that is not a very exciting story or anecdote. Yet, what struck me with the encounter was just how mundane everything was. The tunnels were a secret, yet so obvious. They were a part of the battlefield, yet also of everyday life.
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Have you bought my book A History of Palestinian Islamic Jihad ( @CambridgeUP )? You get a 20% discount with the promotional code “Skare2021”:
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3 years
Highly recommended essay by @danaelkurd !
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2 years
This photograph showing the complete anguish and pain of a father burying his 12-year-old son in Gaza after an Israeli bombing broke something in me in 2014. What happened then is happening now.
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Really appreciate the beautiful plaque from the Palestine Book Awards ( @MiddleEastMnt ) for my book A History of Palestinian Islamic Jihad ( @CambridgeUP )!
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Erik Skare
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I’m looking for a research assistant who is proficient in both Arabic and in R. Preferably based in Oslo, and will be paid. The job is mainly to correct Arabic text output from Google Document AI with @Hegghammer ’s daiR package. Contact me for more info if you’re interested.
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The photos I have been able to find of Muhammad Deif: 1985 (red circle from Islamic University of Gaza), 1994 (far left of the three), unknown, and allegedly a quite recent one of him.
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This looks really exciting! Can’t wait to read
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4 years
It’s weird leaving @UniOslo after seven years, but I’m truly grateful to continue at @CERI_SciencesPo for the next year working with, and learning from, @PREVEXproject .
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My gratitude to @UniOslo_IKOS for hosting my talk today about A History of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, to those who showed up, and to @brynjarlia for moderating the Q&A-session. I had a great time!
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Our @PREVEXproject article ‘Why Individuals and Communities do not Turn to Violent Extremism’ is finally out in the latest issue of @Perspectives_T . Co-authored with @CPowers1986 , @GeorgesFahmi , @NouranSAhmed1 , Ahmad Mhidi, Miriam Ababsa & Olivier Roy:
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When I remember all the approaching deadlines:
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Important piece by Cole on the differences between Hamas, ISIS, and al-Qaida. Some unrelated thoughts: Hamas has been an important factor for curbing salafi jihadism in Gaza.
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Cole Bunzel
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“Gaza and Global Jihad” - my latest for @ForeignAffairs , in which I explain how ISIS & al-Qaida view Hamas and why I think they will l struggle to take advantage of the war in Gaza
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Wonderful news! A History of Palestinian Islamic Jihad ( @CambridgeUP ) will be published as paperback next year in March 2024. That means you don’t have to harvest your grandma’s kidneys to afford the book. Everybody wins (particularly your grandma)!
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“You smell that? Do you smell that? Proofs, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of proofs in the morning.” - Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore, probably. @ibtauris
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With all due respect, this is factually incorrect🧵. The PIJ nucleus was established in Egypt, 1979, the movement was established in Gaza in 1981-1982, and it commenced violence in 1984. PIJ was never part of EIJ.
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David Makovsky
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PIJ is an Islamist terror group founded in 1979 as part of Egypt-based Islamic Jihad, which assassinated President Anwar Sadat in 1981 for signing a peace treaty with Israel. PIJ then moved to Gaza and expanded with extensive support from Iran, which continues today. 12/21
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Even Charles Darwin had bad days: “But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything.”
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Erik Skare
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Jeg har en lengre artikkelen i denne ukas @Morgenbladet om Hamas, vold og realpolitikk. Nettversjon:
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So I finally learned some basic html/CSS to create my own website. You can find all of my publications there (except two monographs) and I will use it to upload replication datasets, active citation etc. Check it out!
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In case you can’t afford the books below, or simply do not have the time to read them, then I warmly recommend the following podcast episodes: @GunningJeroen talks with @ArifCRafiq about Hamas’s historical development:
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I would highly recommend the following books if you want to learn more about Hamas, its history, and its ideology: 1. I think Jeroen Gunning’s Hamas in Politics is one of, if not the, best book about the movement.
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For those interested, I’ve written this piece for @lawfareblog :
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Erik Skare
3 years
Which reminds me, read Eagleton’s scathing review of Gayatri Spivak’s A Critique of Post-Colonial Reason and pray he does not find your works:
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So I wrote this piece for @lawfare in 2021. It is about Palestinian Islamic Jihad, but I do think it is relevant now as it illustrates the tricky situation Hamas has faced the last 15 years and which I believe has contributed what we are seeing now.
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Erik Skare
2 years
Congratulations to all of us at the Center for Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies!
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Thomas Hegghammer
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Stoked to be joining Oslo University's Center for Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies as an adjunct fellow (alongside my FFI job). Looking forward to working on digital humanities and more with the fantastic scholars there
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I would like to congratulate myself with the worst start to the day possible.
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Erik Skare
6 years
Finally got around to read Lahoud’s enlightening and thought-provoking book The Jihadis’ Path to Self-Destruction. Thank you @annestenersen for recommending it!
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3 years
You’ll get a 20% discount if you use the promotional code “Skare2021”!
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Erik Skare
3 years
Author copies finally arrived 🥳🥳🥳 Incredible feeling after years of hard work! Buy the book here:
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More journalists have now been killed in Gaza the last three weeks than in Ukraine.
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My article Digital Surveillance/Militant Resistance: Categorizing the ‘Proto-State Hacker’ finally published by @tvnewmedia .
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Erik Skare
3 years
With everything going on in the West Bank following the murder of Nizar Banat, I highly recommend @brynjarlia ’s book A Police Force Without a State (Ithaca Press).
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Receiving reviewers’ comments like
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Erik Skare
9 years
IS har kommet med ny nashid og det ser ut som (se språkene oppe) @noregsmallag har monopol i kalifatet. @Hegghammer http://t.co/uh1Nn4ckhP
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Erik Skare
2 years
So excited that my article on the #EU and its CT and PvE policies in the Middle East has been accepted for publication by @EJIntSec ! Really looking forward to share it once published. @PREVEXproject
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Erik Skare
4 years
“You smell that? Do you smell that? Proofs, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of proofs in the morning.” - Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore.
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Either way, to summarize, I don’t think the recent developments can be analyzed in a 6 or 12 month framework. Instead, I think this is the culmination of a 15 year development that now also engulfs the West Bank.
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Erik Skare
2 years
Wonderful and strange (wonderfully strange?) to be back “home” at the University of Oslo - and grateful to continue at @CERI_SciencesPo as an associate researcher!
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9 months
So I just found my invited talk about Palestinian Islamic Jihad for the Doha Institute on YouTube. If you’re interested in the movement and it’s history, check it out:
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Erik Skare
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Wonderful review of A History of Palestinian Islamic Jihad ( @CambridgeUP ) in Choice Reviews: “a more thorough, indeed all-encompassing, study of PIJ … and it asks all the right questions.”
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