(Books (Refereed
Ashour, Omar. How ISIS Fights: Military Tactics in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University
Press, 2021
عاشور، عمر. كيف يقاتل تنظيم الدولة (داعش): التكتيكات العسكرية في العراق وسوريا وليبيا ومصر. بيروت: المركز العربي للأبحاث ودراسة السياسات، 2022
The De-Radicalization of Jihadists: Transforming Armed Islamist Movements. New York, London: Routledge, 2009
(Edited Books (Refereed
Ashour, Omar (ed). Bullets to Ballots: Collective De-Radicalisation of Armed Movements. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021
عاشور، عمر وآخرون. من السلاح إلى السلام: التحولات الجماعية من السياسة المسلحة إلى السياسية السلمية. بيروت: المركز العربي للأبحاث ودراسة السياسات، 2022.
(Articles (Refereed
1. "“Punching Above Weights: Combat Effectiveness of Armed Non-State Actors in the Arab- World and Beyond.” Strategic Papers. Doha: Strategic Studies Unit, Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies (August 2020): 1-18. [in English and Arabic].
2. "من الميليشيا إلى الحزب: كيف ولماذا تتحول التنظيمات المسلحة للنشاط السلمي؟" سياسات عربية. عدد ٤٤ (آيار/مايو ٢٠٢٠): ص ٧-٢١.
[From Militia to Party: How and Why do Armed Organisation Transform to Unarmed Activism.” Siyasat Arabiya no. 44 (May 2020): 7-21]. [in Arabic]
Ashour, Omar. “Sinai’s Insurgency: Implications of Enhanced Guerrilla Warfare and Urban Terrorism.” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Vol. 42, no. 6 (June 2019): 541-558
3. عاشور، عمر. "كيف تقاتل ولاية سيناء؟ تحليل سياسي-عسكري للأزمة السيناوية." سياسات عربية. عدد ٣٣ (تموز/يوليو ٢٠١٨): ص ٧-٢١.
4. Ashour, Omar. “Why does the Islamic State Endure and Expand?” International Affairs Papers. Vol. 15, no. 52 (December 2015): 1-18
5. Ashour, Omar. “Collusion to Collision: Islamist-Military Relations in Egypt.” Brookings Papers no. 14 (March 2015): 1-43
6. Ashour, Omar. “From Bad Cop to Good Cop? The Challenge of Security Sector Reform in Egypt.” Brookings-Stanford Papers Series no. 3, (November 2012): 1-23
7. Ashour, Omar. “Libyan Islamists Unpacked: Rise, Transformation, and Future.” Brookings Papers no. 6 (May 2012): 1-22
8. Ashour, Omar. “Libya and the Global Transformations of Armed Islamist Movements.” Terrorism and Political Violence. Vol. 23, no. 3 (July 2011): 377-397
9. Ashour, Omar. “Online De-Radicalization? Countering Violent Extremist Narratives: Message, Messenger and Media Strategy.” Perspectives on Terrorism vol. 4, no. 6 (Fall 2010): 5-9
10. Ashour, Omar. “Islamist De-Radicalization in Algeria: Successes and Failures.” Middle East Journal, Policy Paper no. 21 (November 2008): 1-14
11. Ashour, Omar. “Democratic Islam? Assessing the Bases of Democracy in Islamic Political Thought.” McGill Journal of Middle East Studies vol. 9 no. 1 (Winter 2008): 7-30
12. Ashour, Omar. “De-Radicalization of Jihad? The Impact of Egyptian Islamist Revisionists on al-Qa‘ida.” Perspectives on Terrorism vol. 2, no. 5 (Spring 2008): 11-15
13. Ashour, Omar. “Lions Tamed? An Inquiry into the Causes of De-Radicalization of the Egyptian Islamic Group.” Middle East Journal vol. 61, no. 4 (Autumn 2007): 596 - 625
14. Ashour, Omar and Emre Ünlucayakli. “Islamists, Soldiers, and Conditional Democrats: Comparing the Behaviours of Islamists and the Military in Algeria and Turkey.” Journal of Conflict Studies vol. 26 no. 2 (Winter 2006): 104 -132.
15. Ashour, Omar. “Oil, Security and Internal Politics: The Causes of the Russo-Chechen Wars.” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism vol. 27, no. 2 (March – April 2004): 127 – 143.
16. Ashour, Omar. “Political Dissent in Saudi Arabia: A Threat to the National or Regime Security?” McGill Journal of Middle East Studies vol. 7 no. 1 (Winter 2003): 30 - 46.
Book Chapters (Refereed)
1. Ashour, Omar. “Revisiting Collective De-Radicalisation: A Comparative Perspective.” In Bullets to Ballots: Collective De-Radicalisation of Armed Movements, edited by Omar Ashour. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021: 1-23
2. Ashour, Omar. “Transformations of Armed Nonstate Actors: Enduring Challenges and Strategic Implications.” In Bullets to Ballots: Collective De-Radicalisation of Armed Movements, edited by Omar Ashour. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021: 282-304
3. Ashour, Omar and Dana El-Kurd. “The Arab Spring and the Challenges of Security Sector Reform.” In After the Arab Revolutions: Decentring Democratic Transition Theory (pp. 251-274), edited by Abdelwahab El-Affendi and Khalil al-Anani. Edinburgh: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021: 251-273. (Forthcoming in Arabic)
4. عاشور، عمر. "هزيمة غير حتمية؟ الأداء القتالي المصري في حرب حزيران/يونيو 1967." في حرب حزيران/يونيو 1967 تحرير أحمد حسين. الدوحة: المركز العربي للأبحاث ودراسة السياسات، 2021، 77-93.
[Ashour, Omar. “Hazima Ghayr Hatmiyya? Al-’ada’ al-Qitali al-Misri fi Harb Huzayyran 1967 (Not an Inevitable Defeat? Egypt’s Combat Performance in the Six-Day War).” The June 1967 War. Edited by Ahmed Hussein. Doha: Arab Canter for Research and Policy Studies, 2020: 77-93]. [In Arabic]
5. Ashour, Omar. “Bullets Beat Ballots: The Arab Uprisings and Civil-Military Relations in Egypt.” Revisiting the Arab Uprisings, edited by Stéphane Lacroix and Jean-Pierre Filiu. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018: 45-71
6. Ashour, Omar. “Between ISIS and a Failed State: The Saga of Libyan Islamists.” Rethinking Political
Islam. Edited by Shadi Hamid and William McCants. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017: 101-119
7.
Ashour, Omar and Sherif Mohyideen. “Security Sector Reform and Transitional Justice in Egypt.” Transitional Justice in the Middle East. Edited by Chandra Lekha Sriram. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016: 234-253
8. Ashour, Omar. “Egypt’s Revolution and the Transformation of Armed Islamist Movements towards Unarmed Activism.” Civil Resistance and Conflict Transformation. Edited by Veronique Dudouet. London, New
York: Routledge, 2015: 173-190
9. Ashour, Omar. “Post-Jihadism and Ideological De-Radicalization.” In Contextualizing Jihadi Ideologies. Edited
by Zaheer Kazimi and Jeevan Doel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012: 123-14
10. Ashour, Omar. “The Dynamics of Security Sector Reform in Egypt.” In Security Sector Reform and Democratization: A Comparative Perspective. Edited by Heiner Hanggi and Carolina Hernandez. Geneva: DCAF Publications, 2012: 1-24
11. Ashour, Omar. “The Transformation of the Islamic Salvation Army in Algeria.” In Terrorist Rehabilitation and Counter-Radicalization. Edited by Lawrence Rubin, Rohan Gunaratna, and Jolene Jerard. New York, London: Routledge, 2011: p. 11-26
12. Ashour, Omar. “Continuity and Change in Islamist Political Thought and Behaviour.” In The Changing Middle East. Edited by Bahget Korany. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2010: 139-167
13. Ashour, Omar. “Hamas and the Prospects of De-Radicalization.” In Violent Non-State Actors in Contemporary World Politics. Edited by Klejda Mulaj. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. (word count: 9,321)
