Mohammed M. HafezMohammed Mahmoud Hafez, Ph.D.
Naval Postgraduate School. is a specialist in Islamist movements, political militancy, and violent radicalization. He is the author of ''Why Muslims Rebel'' and ''Suicide Bombers in Iraq: The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom''. Hafez received his PhD from the

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in 2000. At LSE, he studied under Fred Halliday. Hafez is currently a professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the

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. Hafez is also the author of over 50 scholarly articles and policy pieces on militant Islamist ideologies, radicalization, foreign fighters,

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and

suicide bombers A suicide attack (also known by a wide variety of other names, see below) is a deliberate attack in which the perpetrators knowingly sacrifice their own lives as part of the attack. These attacks are a form of murder–suicide that is ofte ...

Books

* ''Suicide Bombers in Iraq: The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom'' (

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, 2007) * ''Manufacturing Human Bombs: The Making of Palestinian Suicide Bombers'' (United States Institute of Peace, 2006) * ''Why Muslims Rebel: Repression and Resistance in the Islamic World'' ( Lynne Rienner, 2003)

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1970 births American non-fiction writers American sociologists Alumni of the London School of Economics Living people Naval Postgraduate School faculty {{US-sociologist-stub