Scholarly Contributions in the Media

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Featured Articles

  • “How to Prevent an Iranian Caliphate,” Wall Street Journal, March 2024
  • “Wie der Salafismus in unsere Welt kam,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, July 2016
  • “Laïcité without Égalité?,”  Foreign Affairs, November 2015
  • Background Q&A / FAQ on Terror in Paris, Religion & Politics, November 2015
  • “Will French Attack Fuel Tensions?" CNN.com, June 2015
  • “Tunisia, The Courage of Compromise,” Reset Dialogue of Civilizations, February 2015
  • “The Algerian Legacy, How France Confronts its Past,” Foreign Affairs, January 2015
  • “The 21st Century Impact of European Muslim Minorities on ‘Official Islam’ in the Muslim-Majority World,” Philosophy and Social Criticism,  Summer 2014
  • “Ennahda’s Historic Compromise: What Rome can teach Carthage,” Brookings, November 2014
  • “The National Identity Debate in France,” with Gabriel Goodliffe, The International Spectator, Spring 2013
  • “’Midwife’ or ‘Spectator’? U.S. Policies towards North Africa in the 21st Century,” in Cesare Merlini and Olivier Roy, eds., Arab Society in Revolt: The West’s Mediterranean Challenge, Washington, DC: Brookings Press, 2012
  • “The European Left in Crisis: Muslims and Social Democrats,” Dissent, Fall 2013

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