MEDIA

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Selected Popular Writings and Op-Eds

• Megan A. Stewart, Jonathan B. Petkun & Mara Revkin, "The Progressive Case Against Retrenchment," Foreign Affairs (Jun. 2024)
• Kristen Kao & Mara Revkin, "How the Iraqi Crackdown on the Islamic State May Actually Increase Support for the Islamic State," Washington Post (Jan. 7, 2019). 
• Mara Revkin, "Iraq’s Harsh Approach to Punishing Islamic State 'Collaborators' Stands to Have Counterproductive Consequences," Lawfare (Jun. 11, 2018). 
• Mara Revkin, "How Militants in Iraq Recruit Children," Washington Post (Feb. 14, 2018).
• Mara Revkin & Ahmad Mhidi, "Quitting ISIS: Why Syrians are Abandoning the Group," Foreign Affairs Online (May 1, 2016).
• Mara Revkin, "ISIS' Perfect Enemy," Foreign Affairs Online (Nov. 14, 2016).
• Mara Revkin, "Does ISIS Need Territory to Survive?," New York Times (Oct. 20, 2016)("Room for Debate" with Jacob Olidort).
• Andrew F. March & Mara Revkin, "Caliphate of Law," Foreign Affairs (Apr. 15, 2015). 

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Coverage of Research in English Print and Online Media: 

• Rozina Ali, "The ISIS Beat," The Drift Magazine (Apr. 27, 2021).
• Sam Ratner, "Civilian decisions in conflict: Part I," Public Radio International (Sept. 22, 2020).
• Louisa Loveluck & Mustafa Salim, "ISIS exploits Iraq’s coronavirus lockdown to step up attacks," Washington Post (May 8, 2020).
• Louisa Loveluck, "As the ‘caliphate crumbles,’ the Islamic State is seeding a new insurgency," Washington Post (Mar. 7, 2019).
• Tim Lister, "ISIS is far from being defeated as a fighting force or ideology," CNN (Jan. 9, 2019). 
• Rukmini Callimachi & Michael Slackman, "Why We Collected ISIS’ Internal Documents, and What Happens Next," New York Times (May 31, 2018).
• Rukmini Callimachi, "The ISIS Files," New York Times (Apr. 4, 2018). 
• "Does ISIS Need Territory to Survive?" New York Times Room for Debate (Oct. 21, 2016).
• Sirwan Kajjo, Mehdi Jedinia, Rikar Hussein, Clinton, "Trump Clash Over Strategy to Defeat IS," Voice of America (Sept. 27, 2016).
• Tim Arango, "ISIS Transforming Into Functioning State That Uses Terror as Tool," New York Times (Jul. 21, 2015).
• Joanna Paraszczuk, "Heart Of Darkness: The Core Beliefs Justifying IS Brutality," Radio Free Europe (May 6, 2015).
• Peter White, "Egypt Elections Paint Complicated Picture for Obama Administration," International Business Times (Dec. 1, 2011).

Coverage of Research in Arabic Print and Online Media:

• Alhurra, فيروس كورونا "يحيي" الدواعش في العراق, "Coronavirus 'Revives' Daesh [Islamic State] Militants in Iraq," (May 8, 2020).
• Mohamed Ali Saleh, تقرير أميركي: هزيمة «داعش» قد تشعل جاذبيته, "American Report: The Defeat of Daesh [Islamic State] May Rekindle Its Appeal," Asharq Al-Awsat (Mar. 9, 2019).
• Dana Hadra, واطن ضعف النظام القانوني لداعش, "Vulnerabilities of the Legal System of Daesh [Islamic State]," Alwatan (Aug. 2, 2016).
• Alwatan, تأثير تغيير جهاز أمن الدولة المصري على واقع المرحلة المقبلة, "The Effect of Changing the Egyptian State Security Apparatus on the Next Phase," (Apr. 9, 2011).

  Radio and Podcast Interviews:

• Ayesha Rascoe, "Nearly 6 years after it was wiped out, is ISIS having a possible resurgence?" National Public Radio Weekend Edition (Jan. 5, 2025).
• Mara Revkin & Justin Schon interviewed by Katharine Fortin and Florian Weigand, "S1 EP5: Decision Making in Armed Conflict," Beyond Compliance Consortium (Nov. 3, 2024).
• Radio Miraya (UN in South Sudan's radio station), "Launch of Fragility Index Report in South Sudan," (Oct. 29, 2024).
• Adam Day, "The Battle Against ISIS in Iraq (Part 2‪)‬," Hybrid Wars--United Nations University Centre for Policy Research (Oct. 23, 2020).
• Korva Coleman, "What Life After ISIS Looks Like In Iraq," National Public Radio (Mar. 30, 2019).
• Sarah El-Sharaawi, "A Just State? A Look Inside the Tyranny of ISIS," Arab Media & Society (Jul. 25, 2016).
• The Loopcast, "(Lack of) Law and Order in the Sinai," (Oct. 11, 2013).

Television:

• United Nations Web TV, "Cradled by Conflict: Child Involvement with Armed Groups in Contemporary Conflict - Press Conference," (Feb. 12, 2018).
• BBC News, "Egypt's Political Uncertainty," (Jun. 4, 2012).

Discussing transitional justice and human rights in Iraq with Mahdi al-Allaq, former Secretary-General of Iraq's Council of Ministers, in Baghdad during a research mission with United Nations University in 2018.