Mahmud El Shafey

Mahmud El Shafey is a writer and editor at pan-Arab Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper based in London and blogger for The Majalla Magazie.

The ISIS twitterati and the online jihad

ISIS and Al-Qaeda—which includes ISIS rivals the Al-Nusra Front in Syria—are competing over the same ‘talent pool’ of marginalized and angry Arab and Islamic youth, and ISIS is winning hands down.

By Mahmud El Shafey

/ 20 Aug 2014