Hannah Allam
Hannah Allam is a Washington-based national security correspondent for NPR, focusing on homegrown extremism. Before joining NPR, she was a national correspondent at BuzzFeed News, covering U.S. Muslims and other issues of race, religion and culture. Allam previously reported for McClatchy, spending a decade overseas as bureau chief in Baghdad during the Iraq war and in Cairo during the Arab Spring rebellions. She moved to Washington in 2012 to cover foreign policy, then in 2015 began a yearlong series documenting rising hostility toward Islam in America. Her coverage of Islam in the United States won three national religion reporting awards in 2018 and 2019. Allam was part of McClatchy teams that won an Overseas Press Club award for exposing death squads in Iraq and a Polk Award for reporting on the Syrian conflict. She was a 2009 Nieman fellow at Harvard and currently serves on the board of the International Women's Media Foundation.
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Mizna, the nation's only Arab American literary journal, was founded by a group of friends in Minneapolis 20 years ago. Since then, it's become a springboard for Arab-American writers.
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ISIS launched 145 bot and "sockpuppet" accounts across Twitter in a coordinated campaign in the wake of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's death. Twitter is trying to stamp them out, but is struggling.
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Less than a week after President Trump announced the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the terrorist group has issued a defiant message to the world.
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Counterterrorism analysts warn that ISIS will likely strengthen in light of the Trump administration's decision to pull U.S. forces from the Turkish-Syrian border.
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Online disinformation campaigns thrive in big, polarizing moments for the country — and the impeachment inquiry is no exception.
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Director Kholoud Sawaf wanted to challenge American views of Syria with a play inspired by Romeo and Juliet. Instead, she endured a three-year ordeal involving war, displacement and the travel ban.
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Domestic extremism researchers say the manifesto linked to the El Paso shooter is intended as a call to arms to other white nationalists. Such explicit calls for violence are becoming more common.
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President Trump spoke to the nation from the White House on Monday and called this weekend's mass shootings barbaric slaughters. He named specific causes for the extremist violence.
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Police are trying to learn whether a four-page manifesto that has surfaced online was written by the suspect in yesterday's El Paso, Texas shooting.
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The most active and lethal political violence in the U.S. comes from the far-right. But scholars who study terrorism are struggling to apply meaningful labels to the groups which pose threats.