Articles

RADICALIZATION: THE RELIGIOUS AND IDEOLOGICAL

Published by Dr. Radwan Alsayyed - Lebanese thinker and researcher, Professor of Islamic Studies at the Lebanese University

Etymologically, “radicalization” is a term originally translated or calqued from English, which means swerving from and veering off practice and ideology,...

POST-COVID-19 PANDEMIC COUNTERTERRORISM STRATEGY

Published by DR. ALIA ALANI - Tunisian historian and researcher on strategic issues, Manouba University

Following the outbreak of COVID-19, the world is experiencing a major change in economy and politics. A big question mark remains hovering over many: Will there be a...

KU KLUX KLAN - ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF TERRORISM

Published by ABDUL SATTAR ABDUL RAHMAN - JOURNALIST AND RESEARCHER

The whole gamut of American cinematography features scenes in which groups of men clad in white gowns and masks, very much like high fluffy hats covering the head and...

CATALYSTS FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN COUNTERTERRORISM

Published by DR. SALEH AL-SAAD MIQDADI - Jordanian Strategic Researcher and Writer

Metaphorically, international cooperation in counterterrorism has become the spearhead in such unremitting efforts, simply because terrorism per se is a global...

GLOBAL DILEMMA - TERRORISM GIVES IN BUT WIDELY MUSHROOMS!

Published by ABDUL SATTAR ABDUL RAHMAN - JOURNALIST AND RESEARCHER

Battles are important to win, but war is the most important to win simply because winning one or more battles while losing war is a glaringly ignominious defeat, and...

ARMIES IN TIME OF PANDEMIC!

Published by DR. MOHAMMED YAZID BIN THU QIBLI - COUNTERTERRORISM PUNDIT, MALAYSIA

COVID-19 pandemic, aka Coronavirus in virology, has spread like wildfire since December 2019. Caused by Acute Respiratory Syndrome, the said virus was discovered in...

LEGAL TREATMENT OF TERRORISM - ABUNDANCE AND EFFICACY

Published by Professor Abdul Latif al-Hanashi, Professor of Higher Education at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Manouba

Terrorism per se is one of the most ubiquitous and rampant manifestations of violence in the world. With a spate of despicable tragedies unfolding, indelible memories...

ISLAMOPHOBIA IN EUROPE - USING CRISES TO SPREAD HATE

Published by DR. IGNACIO GUTIERREZ DE TERAN GOMEZ - Professor of Arabic Literature and Contemporary History of the Arab and Muslim World, (AUM), Spain.

Once again, it is Islamophobia that triggers increasingly massive waves of hate across Europe, US, Australia, Canada and New Zealand for Muslims and their beliefs,...

CHALLENGES OF TERRORISM IN G5 SAHEL

Published by Dr. Ghalib Abdul Aziz Al-Zamil - Academic Researcher

The reality grounded in disintegrating and dismantling Daesh solid organization structure, while increasingly becoming dwarfed into few yet scattered groups catapulted by...

SENEGAL COUNTERTERRORISM APPROACH

Published by Mor Loume - COUNTERTERRORISM RESEARCHER

Perhaps terrorism per se has become one of the key challenges to spreading peace and security, and building statehood and administration throughout Africa. In the recent...

Pakistan experience of counterterrorism

Published by Ghanzanfar Ali Khan - Pakistani journalist and writer

Pakistan has made appreciable strides in its ability to gather and synthesize intelligence, track and target terrorist networks, and use direct action to eliminate...

INCUBATORS OF EXTREMISM AND TERRORISM - DIAGNOSIS AND PREVENTION

Published by Dr. Khaled Mayar Al-Idrisi - Researcher in International Relations and Head of the Moroccan Center for International and Future Studies

Extremism does not arise as a result of a string of pure coincidences; rather, it is the outcome of the combination of a set of religious, ideological, social, political,...

THE THREAT OF CYBERTERRORISM AND THE APPLICABILITY OF THE CONVENTION OF CYBERCRIME

Published by Sonny Zulhuda - Associate Professor and Indonesian Researcher

The proliferation of information and communications technology, merged with the increasing amount of big data and interconnectivity, turns out to be a deadly combination...

WOMEN IN ISIS DISCOURSE - BOMBASTIC WORDS & GRITTY REALITY

Published by Dr. Khaled Mayar Al-Idrisi - Researcher in international relations, and president of the Moroccan Center for International and Future Studies.

Snowballing into existence, ISIS has thrown many politicians, military and security men along with researchers off balance. Over a short period of time, ISIS lured many...

Refugees, Pandemic and Counterterrorism

Published by Dr. Mohd Yazid bin Zul Kepli - Counter-terrorism expert

According to the annual Global Trends report released by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), almost 70.8 million people are now forcibly displaced....

MANIFESTATIONS OF VIOLENCE AND TERRORISM IN OUR VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES AND ASSOCIATED DANGERS TO HUMAN REALITY

Published by YASSIN ATTIA - RESEARCHER

For a great many years, the Arab and Muslim world has ballooned into hotbeds of damning indictment of telling reality rife and riddled with characteristically inherent...

TERRORISM REDUCES RELIGIOSITY TO DEATHBED

Published by Hussein Akhdoosh - Academic Researcher

The terrorist acts carried out by small-minded perpetrators reveal that propensity for religious extremism penetrates into various human cultures, reducing religions and...

ḤARAKAT AL-SHABĀB AL-MUJĀHIDĪN AND CHALLENGES

Published by Dr. Amira Mohammed Abdel Halim - African Affairs Expert, Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, Cairo

Introduction Arguably, many researchers claim that Al-Shabaab Al-Mujahideen was founded in 2002, with the headquarters set up in Salahuddin Camp, Mogadishu. They also...

DYNAMIC DEVELOPMENT OF TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS

Published by Dr. Dalal Mahmoud, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University

Terrorism per se is a labyrinthine and intricate phenomenon in which ideological, social, political and security dimensions come into interplay. Given its complex nature,...

AMERICAN STRATEGY TO COUNTER TERRORISM - OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES

Published by Dr. Faleh Fuleihan Al-Ruwaily - Researcher in Extremism Issues

It was on October 4, 2018 that US President Donald Trump announced a new and fully articulated strategy to counterterrorism, stating that: «It defines the US...

AL-QAEDA TERRORIST RHETORIC

Published by Dr. Omar Al-Hammoud - Professors of Linguistics and Discourse Analysis, Research Center for Discourse and Society, Barcelona, Spain

Discourse Analysis (DA) reveals that extremist rhetoric in general and terrorist rhetoric in particular is a manifestation of verbal violence, targeted at the recipient...

HATE GROUP - FAR-RIGHT TERRORISM

Published by Abdul Sattar Abdul Rahman - Journalist and Researcher

Far-right terrorism in the West, especially in Western Europe, North America, and Oceania, has become a critically rising trend in global terrorist activities. As...

IMMINENT MENACE - CHILDREN OF REFUGEE CAMPS AND CHILDREN BORN TO PARENTS IN TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS

Published by Major General Abdullah Ghanem Al-Qahtani - Writer and researcher

slam along with Muslims is maligned and wrongfully accused of all manifestations of terrorism. The bitter reality is that the followers of Islam fall victim to terrorism,...

COUNTERTERRORISM AND COUNTER-EXTREMISM STRATEGIES - GENERAL FRAMEWORK OF METHODOLOGY AND SUCCESS REQUIREMENTS

Published by Dr. Mohammed Bani Amer - Chief consultant for strategic development and planning

Extremism per se has become today one of the most nefarious challenges, whipping most of the world countries in general and the Arab countries in particular into...

YOUTH AND EXTREMISM - WHY YOUTH JOIN VIOLENT EXTREMIST GROUPS IN CONFLICT ZONES

Published by Dr. Mansour Saeed Al-Qarni - Researcher in Issues of Extremism, Rehabilitation and Inclusion

The staggering number of Muslim youth in general and the Arab youth in particular flooding into conflict zones and volatile areas since the eruption of the war against...

THE ROLE OF UNIVERSITIES IN COMBATING EXTREMISM - CASE STUDY: ITALY

Published by Mohammed Khalid Al-Ghazali - Professor of sociology, University of Padua, Italy

Violent extremism is today a potential threat to social cohesion in Italy; while, in other European countries, the impact of which seems to be more severe and...

WORLD THREATENING CYBERTERRORISM

Published by Abdul Sattar Abdul Rahman - Journalist & Researcher

Given the cutting-edge technologies of communication, terrorism has entered into a new era, making the world reconsider the current manifestations of terrorism, which is...

Cryptocurrency and Terrorism Financing

Published by Dr. Mohd Yazid bin Zul Kepli - Associate Professor at the Faculty of Laws at IIUM, Malaysia

In September 2019, during the 19th Annual International Conference on Counter Terrorism, the United States Treasury Undersecretary, Sigal Mandelker, warned that...

Revoking the Bai’at to IS

Published by Muhammad Saiful Alam Shah Bin Sudiman - Researcher at S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS)

Introduction To Islamist terrorist groups, the bai'at or pledge of allegiance is a declaration of fealty to the organizations and their leaders. Other than...

TERRORISM: GLOBAL CHAMELEON-LIKE THREAT REPELLED BY ALL RELIGIONS

Published by Dr. Ahmed Dheifullah Alqarni - Vice President of the International Institute for Iranian Studies

Other than the challenges of development, the second most notorious danger that Islam is facing today is the ubiquity of terrorism, which is an implacable enemy to...

EMPOWERMENT NARRATIVE IN SPEECH OF EXTREMIST GROUPS

Published by Mohammed Jameel Ahmed - Sudanese Researcher & Writer

Empowerment is a disciplined Islamic concept. Empowerment per se is mentioned in the Holy Quran: Allah has promised, to those among you who believe and work righteous...

TERRORISM IDEOLOGICAL AND MEDIA RISKS

Published by Mohammed Zahid Goul - Editor-in-chief of the Turkish Independent website

The dialectical relationship between ideology and media is a double-edged sword that has greatly affected Muslim communities over the past years. At worst, it has brought...

MEDIA AND TERRORISM: RELATIONSHIP AND THE DEFINED ROLE

Published by Colonel Abdullah Mohammed Shadi - Delegate of the Republic of Yemen to IMCTC

As a matter of fact, we are glaringly facing difficulty defining the theoretical, methodological and value-driven framework that controls media activity, especially daily...

TERRORISM GOES GLOBAL BY THE INTERNET

Published by Dr. Faleh Fuleihan Al-Ruwaily - Extremism Researcher

Globalization began with the advent of information technology, i.e. automation of computers and digital systems, the making of microcosm, satellite-based communications,...

HOW VIOLENT EXTREMISM IS FORMED

Published by Dr. Muhammad Taifuri - Visiting Professor at the Faculties of Legal, Economic and Social Sciences at Mohammed V University in Rabat, and Ibn Zohr University in Agadir.

Violence is seen by a group of researchers as a "natural" human phenomenon. For such researchers, violence per se is rampant in all human history. As such, many...

DIMENSIONS OF TERRORISM IN THE EAST AFRICAN REGION

Published by Dr. Amira Mohamed Abdelhalim - Senior Advisor on African Affairs - Editor-in-Chief of Iranian Spotlights Magazine - Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies (ACPSS), Cairo

For so many years, Africa has been kept out of international deliberations about terrorist threats, especially the sub-Saharan regions. Back to the 1980s and 1990s when...

Money Laundering & Terrorist Financing

Published by Dr. Mohammed Hamed Al-Fayedy - Economic Researcher

In terms of criminology, money laundering ranks among the most serious financial crimes, constituting negative effects equally on the economy and society. Money...

FEASIBILITY OF REHABILITATION AND SOCIAL INCLUSION PROGRAMS, TREATING EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY AND MODIFYING TERRORIST BEHAVIOR, THOUGHT CHANGES, MORPHS AND MUTATES

Published by Dr. Mansour Saeed Al-Qarni, Extremism and Rehabilitation Researcher

Projects of remedial ideology projects aim to rehabilitate those who are ideologically deviant, so that they become more aware of the ideas that they...

JORDAN STANDS OUT TO TERRORISM - MILITARY AND SOFT APPROACHES

Published by Dr. Mohamed el-Adhamat

Geographically located at the height of the storm, Jordan – over the past three decades or so – has been glaringly experiencing the dire consequences of chaos...

BOKO HARAM AND TAKING A BET ON CONFRONTATION

Published by Dr. Al-Khedher Abdul Baqi Mohammed - Director of the Nigerian Center for Arab Research

The first nucleus of Boko Haram was formed in 1995 in northern Nigeria as a religious and sensitization organization under the name of "Muslim Youth...

REVIEW FOR THE EXPERIENCE OF COUNTER-EXTREMISM OBSERVATORY AT DAR AL-IFTAA

Published by Hassan Mohammed - Egyptian Researcher, MPhil in Religion, Politics and Citizenship, University of Padova, Italy

Terrorism has notoriously imposed itself on the international arena, jostling for power as a serious challenge that calls for a broad response from the international...

Child soldiers in terrorist organizations

Published by Dr. Faleh Felayhan Al Ruwaili

Children are adversely affected by armed conflicts around the world. Michelle Foti, vice chairman of the Children and Armed Conflict in 2016 reported that 250 million...

Media’s Role in Countering Radicalization among Young People

Published by Dr. Jassim Khalil Mirza - Academic & Media Expert

All of us are well aware of the important role of media in all contemporary walks of life, including education, culture, economy and security. Most scholarly studies...

Counter-Terrorism on Social Media - A third Axis Map for its Eradication

Published by Prof. Ignacio Gutierrez De Teran Gomez-Benita

European security agencies pay a great deal of attention to the consequences of cyber recruitment and the advanced methods and techniques used by extremist groups to lure...

The Making of terrorism – Religion and Violence

Published by Dr. Faleh bin Felaihan al-Ruwaili

Terrorism is a complex global phenomenon that has overlapping psychological, ideological, cultural, social, economic and political dimensions. It has been subjected to...

In the Aftermath of the Defeat of ISIS

Published by Minister Plenipotentiary/ Abdulmajeed bin Abdulrahman Albabteen

The phase ends of violent groups and organizations with extreme ideological principles are almost identical. Although they differ in details, causes, geographic regions,...

Soft Cells Booby-Trap Virtual Space

Published by Dr. Musa Barhoumeh

In geology, equally as in life and humanities, earthquakes, storms, and volcanoes may cause tremors or aftershocks that are more damaging than the event itself in that...

Counter-Terrorism International Efforts

Published by Saad Al-Sulaiman

Introduction: The very first step to fight terrorism and eradicate its roots from any society requires a thorough understanding of all aspects and causes of...

The Roots of Extremism The Moral Anger and Guided Hatred

Published by Dr. Faleh bin Fleihan Al-Ruwaili

The phenomenon of extremism with regard to individuals is linked to complications of inadaptability with the surrounding political, social and economic environment which...

The History of Terrorism

Published by Air Vice Marshall Hamoud bin Mohammed Al Asmari

The phenomenon of terrorism is as old as humanity. It is linked to the existence of social relations between human beings and to the existence of the conflict...

Intellectual security

Published by Dr. Hassan Abdullah Al-Daa'ja

The intellectual security term pops up continuously in tandem with a litany of current scientific dissertations and studies on the subject. A cause of political,...

International Cooperation in Counter Terrorism

Published by Major General Dr. Fayez Al-Duwairi

The term "terrorism" is relatively a new term, which was first introduced in 1798 in the appendix to a text of a French academy. It was intended to...

Extremism and Terrorism: Root Causes and Consequences

Published by Sayed Ghonaim

There is no doubt that terrorism is a threat to any society as it undermines peace, security and the most basic human rights of secured life and sustainable...

Media and Terrorism - Levels of Relationship

Published by Mohammed Zahid Gul

Media has no doubt a huge and important role in the establishment of convictions and shaping the minds of individuals in the contemporary life. The influence of...

Armed Terrorism and its Fighting Strategy

Published by Major General Staff Dr. Mohamed Kashkoush

Introduction: Armed terrorism can be defined as a group of armed militias that use violence and murder against civilians, armies and state police in order to...

Terrorism between Poverty and Marginalization: Reviewing the Causes of Terrorism

Published by Dr. Amani Massoud Al-Houdaini

Terrorism, an excessive use of power which leads to a state of panic, fear and terror among the public, has historically been the result of three aspects, a...

Confronting Extremism and Terrorism

Published by Dr. Kamal Ahmed Amer

Terrorism is one of the most significant problems facing the modern world. The impact of this phenomenon has increased the speed and the momentum of media coverage...

Challenges of Terrorism

Published by Dr. Albasheer Almutaqi

It is necessary to propose a conceptual definition of ‘terrorism’ as a serious phenomenon and to identify it as a scourge threatening the security and...

The symbiotic relationship between the media and terrorism

Published by Prof. Taha Najem

Mass media and terrorism have become more interdependent in a mutually beneficial relationship often described as 'symbiotic.' This article addresses that...

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Published by DR. ALIA ALANI - Tunisian historian and researcher on strategic issues, Manouba University

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Published by ABDUL SATTAR ABDUL RAHMAN - JOURNALIST AND RESEARCHER

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Published by DR. SALEH AL-SAAD MIQDADI - Jordanian Strategic Researcher and Writer

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Published by ABDUL SATTAR ABDUL RAHMAN - JOURNALIST AND RESEARCHER

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Published by DR. MOHAMMED YAZID BIN THU QIBLI - COUNTERTERRORISM PUNDIT, MALAYSIA

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Published by Professor Abdul Latif al-Hanashi, Professor of Higher Education at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Manouba

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Published by DR. IGNACIO GUTIERREZ DE TERAN GOMEZ - Professor of Arabic Literature and Contemporary History of the Arab and Muslim World, (AUM), Spain.

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Published by Dr. Ghalib Abdul Aziz Al-Zamil - Academic Researcher

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Published by Mor Loume - COUNTERTERRORISM RESEARCHER

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Published by Ghanzanfar Ali Khan - Pakistani journalist and writer

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Published by Dr. Khaled Mayar Al-Idrisi - Researcher in International Relations and Head of the Moroccan Center for International and Future Studies

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Published by Sonny Zulhuda - Associate Professor and Indonesian Researcher

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Published by Dr. Khaled Mayar Al-Idrisi - Researcher in international relations, and president of the Moroccan Center for International and Future Studies.

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Published by Dr. Mohd Yazid bin Zul Kepli - Counter-terrorism expert

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Published by YASSIN ATTIA - RESEARCHER

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Published by Hussein Akhdoosh - Academic Researcher

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Published by Dr. Amira Mohammed Abdel Halim - African Affairs Expert, Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, Cairo

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Published by Dr. Dalal Mahmoud, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University

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Published by Dr. Faleh Fuleihan Al-Ruwaily - Researcher in Extremism Issues

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Published by Dr. Omar Al-Hammoud - Professors of Linguistics and Discourse Analysis, Research Center for Discourse and Society, Barcelona, Spain

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Published by Abdul Sattar Abdul Rahman - Journalist and Researcher

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Published by Major General Abdullah Ghanem Al-Qahtani - Writer and researcher

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Published by Dr. Mohammed Bani Amer - Chief consultant for strategic development and planning

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Published by Dr. Mansour Saeed Al-Qarni - Researcher in Issues of Extremism, Rehabilitation and Inclusion

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Published by Mohammed Khalid Al-Ghazali - Professor of sociology, University of Padua, Italy

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Published by Abdul Sattar Abdul Rahman - Journalist & Researcher

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Published by Dr. Mohd Yazid bin Zul Kepli - Associate Professor at the Faculty of Laws at IIUM, Malaysia

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Published by Muhammad Saiful Alam Shah Bin Sudiman - Researcher at S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS)

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Published by Dr. Ahmed Dheifullah Alqarni - Vice President of the International Institute for Iranian Studies

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Published by Mohammed Jameel Ahmed - Sudanese Researcher & Writer

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Published by Mohammed Zahid Goul - Editor-in-chief of the Turkish Independent website

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Published by Colonel Abdullah Mohammed Shadi - Delegate of the Republic of Yemen to IMCTC

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Published by Dr. Faleh Fuleihan Al-Ruwaily - Extremism Researcher

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Published by Dr. Muhammad Taifuri - Visiting Professor at the Faculties of Legal, Economic and Social Sciences at Mohammed V University in Rabat, and Ibn Zohr University in Agadir.

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Published by Dr. Amira Mohamed Abdelhalim - Senior Advisor on African Affairs - Editor-in-Chief of Iranian Spotlights Magazine - Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies (ACPSS), Cairo

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Published by Dr. Mohammed Hamed Al-Fayedy - Economic Researcher

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Published by Dr. Mansour Saeed Al-Qarni, Extremism and Rehabilitation Researcher

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Published by Dr. Mohamed el-Adhamat

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Published by Dr. Al-Khedher Abdul Baqi Mohammed - Director of the Nigerian Center for Arab Research

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