Location:
B-F2-02
Wednesday, May 13, 2015 - 12:00
AUIS hosts a discussion of "Salafists on Twitter" with IRIS visiting fellow Geneive Abdo, a research fellow at Stimson Center and The Brookings Institution in Washington, DC.
Ms. Abdo will discuss her recent research and publication on the Salafist presence on Twitter, "Salafists and Sectarianism: Twitter and Communal Conflict in the Middle East."
Geneive Abdo is a nonresident fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings and a fellow in the Middle East/Southwest Asia program at the Stimson Center. Her research focuses on modern Iran and political Islam.