-Author and Leading Expert on Foreign Fighters-
Mohammed Hafez
Articles published
Hafez, Mohammed M. and Andre-Walther, “Hamas between Pragmatism and Radicalism,” in Shahram Akbarzadeh, ed. Handbook of Political Islam (New York, NY: Routledge, 2011), pp. 62-73.
Hafez, Mohammed M. “The Alchemy of Martyrdom: Jihadi Salafism and Debates over Suicide Bombings in the Muslim World,” Asian Journal of Social Science 38, 3 (2010), pp. 362-376.
Hafez, Mohammed M. “Radicalization in the Persian Gulf: Assessing the Potential of Islamist Militancy in Saudi Arabia and Yemen,” Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict 1 (2008), pp. 1-19.
Hafez, Mohammed M. “Radical Islam,” in Robert Wuthnow, ed. Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion, 2nd ed. (Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2006).
Hafez, Mohammed M. “Moral Agents, Immoral Violence: Mechanisms of Moral Disengagement in Palestinian Suicide Terrorism,” Jeffrey Victoroff, ed. Tangled Roots: Social and Psychological Factors in the Genesis of Terrorism (Amsterdam, Netherlands: IOS Press, 2006), pp. 292-307.
Hafez, Mohammed M. “Dying to be Martyrs: The Symbolic Dimension of Suicide Terrorism,” in Ami Pedahzur, ed. Root Causes of Suicide Terrorism: The Globalization of Martyrdom (NY and Oxford: Routledge, 2006), pp. 54-80.
Hafez, Mohammed M. “Suicide Terrorism in Iraq: A Preliminary Assessment of the Quantitative Data and Documentary Evidence,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 29, 8 (2006), pp. 591-619.
Hafez, Mohammed M. and Joseph M Hatfield, “Do Targeted Assassinations Work? A Multivariate Analysis of Israel’s Controversial Tactic during Al-Aqsa Uprising,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 29, 4 (June 2006), pp. 359-382.
Hafez, Mohammed M. “Rationality, Culture, and Structure in the Making of Suicide Bombers: A Preliminary Theoretical Synthesis and Illustrative Case Study,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 29, 2 (March-April 2006), pp. 165-185.
Hafez, Mohammed M. “Political Repression and Violent Rebellion in the Muslim World,” in James JF Forest, ed. The Making of a Terrorist: Recruitment, Training, and Root Causes (Westport, CT: Greenwood/Praeger: 2005); pp. 74-91.
Hafez, Mohammed M. “A Tragedy of Errors: Thwarted Democratization and Islamist Violence in Algeria,” in William Crotty, ed. Democratic Development and Political Terrorism (Northeastern University Press, 2005), pp. 301-331.
Hafez, Mohammed M. “From Marginalization to Massacres: Explaining GIA Violence in Algeria,” in Qunitan Wiktorowicz, ed. Islamic Activism: A Social Movement Theory Approach (Indiana University Press, 2004), pp.37-60.
Hafez, Mohammed M. and Quintan Wiktorowicz, “Violence as Contention in the Egyptian Islamic Movement,” in Quintan Wiktorowicz, ed. Islamic Activism: A Social Movement Theory Approach (Indiana University Press, 2004), pp.61-88.
Hafez, Mohammed M. “Armed Islamist Movements and Political Violence in Algeria,” Middle East Journal 54 (Autumn 2000), pp. 572-591.
Hafez, Mohammed M. “Explaining the Origins of Islamic Resurgence: Islamic Revivalism in Egypt and Indonesia,” The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies 22, 3 (Fall 1997).