Jessica
Stern and J.M. Berger co-author the new book, "ISIS:
The State of Terror," from Ecco, an imprint of
HarperCollins. The book, on sale now, examines the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, its
potential fall, how it is transforming the nature of extremist
movements, and how we should evaluate the threat it presents.
Jessica Stern is a
Harvard lecturer on terrorism and the author of the seminal text
Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill. J.M.
Berger is author of the definitive book on American jihadists,
Jihad Joe: Americans Who Go to War in the Name of Islam, a
frequent contributor to Foreign Policy and a non-resident fellow
with the Brookings Institution, Project on U.S.
Relations with the Islamic World.
Wired covered a story first broken on INTELWIRE about American Al Shabab member Omar Hammami denying he wrote the jihadist raps attributed to him. "The raps were pretty terrible," J.M. Berger told Wired. "If he's not responsible for even one, that's a black mark erased from his record."
J.M. Berger was quoted in a Buzzfeed story on the Christopher Dorner case.
CNN's Starting Point (above) and Out Front with Erin Burnett invited J.M. Berger to reveal new details about Wisconsin white supremacist shooter Wade Page and his recent encounters with law enforcement sources investigating domestic terrorism.
Berger was quoted in stories on on Wade Page, the white supremacist who opened fire on a Sikh religious assembly in Oak Creek, Wisc., by the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN and more.
EVENTS
New America Foundation panel, "Infiltration and Surveillance: Countering Homegrown Terrorism," with J.M. Berger and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman.
NEWS
J.M. Berger was named one of Foreign Policy's Twitterati 100, "the 100 Twitter feeds you need to follow to make sense of" global turmoil and conflict.
In an exclusive report for Foreign Policy, J.M. Berger reveals the reason that Somalia's Al Shabab wants to kill American jihadist Omar Hammami.
Jihad Joe is the first comprehensive history of the American jihadist movement, tracking the phenomenon from the 1970s to the present. The book has been praised in reviews by the New York Times, Publisher's Weekly, the Washington Times, Redstate.com, Library Journal and more. It is available in hardcover eveywhere books are sold, as well as Kindle, Nook and Google ebook editions.
