MSc Terrorism & Counter-Terrorism Studies, Senior Lecturer @RHUL_Law, co-lead @CVTRC_RH, Associate Fellow, RUSI & ICCT. @lizzypearson.bsky.social
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As well as all the recent awful, it has been my birthday 🎈 and I’ve been promoted to Senior Lecturer. Important to note the goods! In celebration, a friend made me an Extreme cake (millionaires shortbread) .. 😁😂
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Artists in Mosul are returning to exhibitions and workshops after years in which Daesh restricted artistic activity. Today, these spaces allow artists to present their work, exchange ideas and reconnect with the city’s cultural scene.
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Working with terrorism data? Our latest issue has a study you shouldn't skip.
@malonsovillota and @RubenArcosM compared 55 open datasets on definitions, sources and codebooks.
Take a look: buff.ly/z4fmqXJ
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Sample 'Travels in the Spanish Civil War' by @Civil_War_Spain here ➡️ tinyurl.com/yh2rnc6e
‘A masterly piece of objective writing… Researched with scrupulous honesty in the vein of Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia, it makes compelling reading.’ — Richard Blair, Trustee of @Orwell_Society & son of George Orwell
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Short video about my book "Travels through the Spanish Civil War" published by @HurstPublishers. Took me 7 years to write. Starts in Barcelona's Plaça Catalunya, ends in Austria. Takes the reader to Aragón with Orwell's son, Gernika, the Ebro battle, the Valley of the Fallen. I wanted to understand the war by traveling through today's landscapes, the scars of violence still there, looking also how the war is remembered, dark clouds threatening today.
Tourists in Bath once asked me when the city ‘closed’ .. I was pretty confused.
‘ The residents of ‘most beautiful village’ driven out by tourist invasion’
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As a homicide detective, I can say with all of my being that there is no lesson learned in seeing someone die. But there is a price. And that price is your peace. Your decency. And the soul of our society.
We don’t have to be this way, this fake tough but real ugly way. Stop
Breaking news: The firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be live-streamed, the Defense Department said.
“People need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said. wapo.st/4hNxK0C
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Check out my new piece for @WashInstitute: “The Islamic State in Iraq After the U.S. Withdrawal” washingtoninstitute.org/poli…
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Our latest free books give-away, open to all worldwide. This time it's 8 books from the last 200 years, and 8 people will be drawn to pick their choice. Retweet this and you're in for the random draw on Sunday 11 October. Proper books these. Details to follow over next few hours!
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The normalized erasure of who does what to whom, in sexed terms, leaves us living in ignorance. Everything is rendered vague, generic, unknowable and neutral - when the material reality is anything but
This is vast majority male enacted. We need clarity
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📢 Our Spring/Summer 2027 catalogue has just landed!
Explore generational views on warfare (@BuchananLiz), the latest global trend of the ultra rich: private cities (@kichanova), gain fresh insight into British Muslim politics today (@Imran_posts) and much, much more!
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First report (at least that I've seen) of al Qaeda connection with flydubai flight #1073 incident. breakingthenews.net/Article/…
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Under Operation Inherent Resolve, 32 nations contributed to defeating Daesh in Iraq and Syria. Today, the counter-Daesh military mission in Iraq is an Iraqi-led mission.
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Today marks the success of a 12 year campaign as Iraq enters a new phase of security cooperation. See how the Global Coalition's military mission ended Daesh's territorial control in Syria and Iraq, liberating over 7 million people.
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New jihadi group Saraya Nuzza’ al-Qaba'il announced to confront Israel’s incursions in southern Syria
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Islamic State's own media has quietly admitted its African routes are "closed" due to airstrikes.
Aspiring Western fighters are being turned away by the very group they wanted to join. We unpacked what that means a month ago - still worth your time 👇
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🧵A few takeaways from my fuller BBC Monitoring analysis on JNIM’s evolving relationship with the al-Qaeda brand 👇
Is JNIM in the Sahel moving away from the global al-Qaeda brand?
monitoring.bbc.co.uk/product…
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🇮🇴 Need to understand the furore over the Chagos deal? Learn the complicated Cold War history of this British Overseas Territory and what it means for geopolitics today in @SamuelBashfield's new book.
‘Asks why and how the UK & US collaborated to create and perpetuate BIOT through the Cold War and after. . . a blow-by-blow account of a highly topical issue.’ @PaliwalAvi
Sample & purchase here:
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30% off w/code BIOT30
ALT Book cover of 'The British Indian Ocean Territory' showing an aerial view of the region covered in clouds.
The UK has stalled plans to cede control of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius amid opposition from US President Donald Trump. bloomberg.com/news/newslette…
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🇬🇱 How to understand the context of the new Greenland deal? Read 'So You Want to Own Greenland?' by @BuchananLiz, now available in an updated paperback edition.
'A highly readable (and expert) guide to a remote place that is becoming increasingly important.' @gordoncorera
co-host of The Rest is Classified podcast @triclassified
Sample here 👉 tinyurl.com/3f7rjhba
Use code GREENLAND20 to get a 20% discount.
ALT Pile of 'So You Want to Own Greenland?' paperbacks highlighting it is a 'new edition.'
Denmark says NATO shares responsibility for Arctic security under Greenland deal reut.rs/4hijo82 reut.rs/4hijo82
Grief can have the opposite effect to the king’s suggestion. It makes you remember very clearly the things people did or didn’t say.
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Coalition partners killed Daesh's spokesman this week. Largely absent from public commentary, he was nonetheless a senior figure within the group. His presence in Yemen highlights the lack of presence the group has in Syria and Iraq; his death highlights the weakness of Daesh's dispersed structure.
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Available now ⬇️
‘A nuanced and important contribution to our understanding of one of the most brutal military institutions of the twentieth century.’ — @robert_lyman
'Punishment' by @Mujakura is the chilling exploration of how Imperial Japan framed war as justice—and how that moral logic helped unleash extraordinary brutality across Asia and the Pacific.
Get 20% off w/code ORBACH20 and read an excerpt ➡️ tinyurl.com/4v7wh593
ALT Against a dark green/brown backdrop is the book mock-up of 'Punishment: Behind Japanese Military Brutality' by Danny Orbach. The book cover is grey and shows two armed soldiers, one at the front standing side on and wearing a helmet. The other stands in the distance. The title and the author's name are visible in white text. The subtitle is in black lettering.