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Salafism: Ideas, Recent History, Politics

by Jacob Olidort
Mar 9, 2016
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Jacob Olidort

Jacob Olidort, a 2016-2017 Soref fellow at The Washington Institute, focuses on the history and ideology of Salafi movements and Islamist groups in the Middle East.

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