Christopher Anzalone is a doctoral student in the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University where he studies modern Muslim socio-political movements, Shi'ite Islam, contemporary jihadi movements, and Islamist visual culture. He has published articles in Foreign Policy magazine's AFPAK Channel and several academic encyclopedias including the Princeton University Press' Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought (forthcoming) and Oxford University Press' Encyclopedia of the Islamic World (2009), Encyclopedia of the Modern World (2008), and Encyclopedia of Islam and Law (forthcoming).