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Omar Ashour

Professor of Security & Military Studies at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies and the University of Exeter

Dr Omar Ashour is a Professor of Security & Military Studies at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (Qatar) and the University of Exeter (UK). He is a non-resident senior fellow at the Democratic Initiatives Foundation (Ukraine). His current research projects focus on armed resistance in the occupied territories of Ukraine and comparative combat effectiveness of small(er) states and non-state forces. He is the author of How Hamas Fights: Hybrid Defence & Combat Effectiveness in Gaza (2025), Ukraine’s Multi-Domain Resistance in the Occupied Territories, (2024), How ISIS Fights: Military Tactics in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt (2021) and The De-Radicalization of Jihadists (2009). He is the editor of Bullets to Ballots: Collective De-Radicalisation of Armed Movements. Previously, he served as a Reserve Officer and a Senior Consultant for the UN. He contributes regularly to the media, including hosting a show about battle analysis on Al-Araby TV, titled "Battleground".
Updated: March 11, 2025

Agenda

The Middle East’s Dangerous New Normal
LMC 2025
A Play of Hopes and Fears: Military Lessons from Ukraine
LMC 2023

Articles

Nothing Is Forever Lost: Ukraine’s Multi-Domain Resistance and the Future of Peace

Over the past eleven years, Ukraine’s resistance movement has matured into a hybrid, multi-domain defence ecosystem operating deep within occupied territory and, increasingly, across the border inside Russia itself. What began as a series of loosely coordinated and under-resourced acts of defiance in 2014 has…

Omar Ashour
LMC 2025

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