Omar Ashour
Professor of Security & Military Studies
Dr Omar Ashour is a Professor of Security and Military Studies at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (Qatar) and the University of Exeter (UK). He is the Director of the Strategic Studies Unit at the Centre for Research and Policy Studies and a non-resident senior fellow at the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation (Ukraine). His current research projects focus on comparative combat effectiveness and small(er) state defence in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Prof Ashour is the author of How ISIS Fights: Military Tactics in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt (2021, translated into Ukrainian and Arabic) and The De-Radicalization of Jihadists (2009). He is the editor of Bullets to Ballots: Collective De-Radicalisation of Armed Movements, which has also been translated into Ukrainian and Arabic. Previously, Prof Ashour served as a Reserve Officer and a Senior Consultant for the UN. He contributes regularly to media outlets.
Updated: March 11, 2025
