Lorenzo G. Vidino

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Lorenzo G. Vidino
Born
Milan, Italy
Nationality
  • Italian
  • American
Occupation
  • Academic
  • writer
Known forResearch into Islamism

Lorenzo G. Vidino is an Italian-American writer on Islamism in Europe and North America. He was born in Milan, Italy. He holds a law degree from the University of Milan and a Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.[1]

Career[]

A visiting fellow at the RAND Corporation in Washington, DC from October 2010, Vidino previously held fellowships at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; the U.S. Institute of Peace; and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; and was a policy adviser at European Foundation for Democracy.[2] Vidino was chosen to head the George Washington University Center for Cyber and Homeland Security's Program on Extremism, which launched in June 2015.[3]

Vidino is the author of three books, a number of congressional testimonies, and frequent articles in several prominent newspapers and academic journals.

Publications[]

  • Al Qaeda in Europe: The New Battleground of International Jihad (2005)
  • The New Muslim Brotherhood in the West[4] (2010)
  • The Closed Circle: Joining and Leaving the Muslim Brotherhood in the West (2020)

References[]

  1. ^ Leiken, Robert S. (2010-04-15). Europe's Angry Muslims: The Revolt of the Second Generation. Oxford University Press. pp. 284–. ISBN 9780195328974. Retrieved 7 May 2012.
  2. ^ "Interview with EFD's Lorenzo Vidino on European Foreign Fighters".
  3. ^ "Dr. Lorenzo Vidino - Program on Extremism - The George Washington University". cchs.gwu.edu. Retrieved 30 September 2018.
  4. ^ "The New Muslim Brotherhood in the West | Columbia University Press". Columbia University Press. Retrieved 2018-09-30.

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