Moustafa Ayad
Moustafa Ayad
Research Chair in Global Islamism & Counter-Terrorism
Moustafa Ayad is ISD’s Research Chair in Global Islamism & Counter Terrorism. He is author of the ISD reports The Propaganda Pipeline: The ISIS Fuouaris Upload Network on Facebook, El Rubio’ Lives: The Challenge Of Arabic Language Extremist Content On Social Media Platforms, ‘The Baghdadi Net’: How A Network of ISIL-Supporting Accounts Spread Across Twitter, The Management of Terrorist Content: How Al Qaeda Texts Continue to Evade Facebook and YouTube Detection, and co-author of No Platform for Old Men, Barriers to Online Youth Civic Engagement and P-CVE in Europe.
Expertise Areas
Far-Left Extremism, Far-Right Extremism, Hybrid Extremism and Nihilistic Violence, Information Warfare and Online Manipulation, Islamist Extremism, Terrorism and Extremism, Threat Analysis and Prevention
Issues
Regions
Africa, Australia, Canada, Central America, Eastern Europe, Europe, France, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, North America, Oceania, Russia, South America, Southeast Asia, UK, US, West Africa, Western Europe
