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Thomas Hegghammer is Senior Research Fellow in Politics at All Souls College, Oxford University. He is a political scientist and historian who works on political violence in the Muslim world, especially transnational jihadi groups. His books include The Caravan: Abdallah Azzam and the Rise of Global Jihad (Cambridge, 2020), Jihadi Culture: The Art and Social Practices of Militant Islamists (Cambridge, 2017), and Jihad in Saudi Arabia: Violence and Pan-Islamism since 1979 (Cambridge, 2010). Dr. Hegghammer previously worked at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) in Oslo and has held fellowships at Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
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