Hassan Hassan

Hassan Hassan is the co-author of ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror, a NYT and Washington Post bestseller. He is Senior Fellow at the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy, a think-tank in Washington DC, and a columnist for UAE-based English daily The National. Hassan was previously Associate Fellow at Chatham House's Middle East and North Africa Programme, and deputy comment editor, for The National. He focuses on militant Islam, Syria, Iraq, and the Gulf States.His book was chosen by the Wall Street Journal as one of 10 must-read works on the evolution of terrorism in the Middle East, one of the Times of London’s Best Books of 2015, and the New York Times' Editors' Choice. The book was reviewed favorably in countless newspaper articles and policy and academic journals, including twice by the New York Times. The Times’ chief book critic, Michio Kakutani, said the book gave readers "a fine-grained look at the organization’s evolution through assorted incarnations."His writing has regularly appeared in the Guardian, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, New York Times, Financial Times, Daily Beast, and weekly in The National. He also appeared on flagship television programs, such as the O'Reilly Factor, Amanpour, the Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, among others.A native of eastern Syria near the Iraqi borders, Hassan briefs and advises American and Middle Eastern policymakers on geopolitics, culture, and extremism in the region, and occasionally testified before Congress. He received an MA in International Relations from the University of Nottingham in the UK. On Twitter, @hxhassan.