# Omar Mohammed

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Final Episode of the Series

In the final episode of 36 Minutes on Antisemitism, the podcast concludes with a critical conversation that reflects on one of the most contested and unresolved issues in higher education today: the intersection of antisemitism and campus-based intersectional politics. Dr. Bruce Hoffman—Senior Fell…

E176. A Witness

Omar Mohammed is an Iraqi historian and “citizen journalist.” Jay says he is one of the most extraordinary people you will ever meet. At tremendous risk to himself, he chronicled the Islamic State’s occupation of Mosul. What he saw might destroy the average person. But he has pressed on, simply bec…

Election “Underdogs” Omar Mohammad & Brian Thiessen

Polling tells part, but not all, of an election story. It's not entirely unusual for a perceived "underdog" to surprise on Election Day, having captured lightning in a bottle at exactly the right time and mobilized their supporters to get out and vote. In this episode, we connect with Edmonton mayo…

Writing History As Resistance and Defiance: Mosul Eye

In June 2014, when ISIS swept into Iraq's second city Mosul, historian Omar Mohammed immediately began documenting the terrorist occupation of his hometown as and act of Resistance and Defiance. Now Mohammed has written a book, Mosul Eye: A Scholar's Clandestine War Against ISIS about his life an…

Lawfare Daily: The U.S. Withdrawal from Iraq and the Future of the Iraq-U.S. Relationship

For today’s episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sits down with Dr. Omar Mohammed, a senior researcher with the Program on Extremism at The George Washington University and the author of the blog Mosul Eye, which anonymously documented life under ISIS control in Iraq; Amb. Doug Silliman…

Lawfare Daily: The U.S. Withdrawal from Iraq and the Future of the Iraq-U.S. Relationship

For today’s episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sits down with Dr. Omar Mohammed, a senior researcher with the Program on Extremism at The George Washington University and the author of the blog Mosul Eye, which anonymously documented life under ISIS control in Iraq; Amb. Doug Silliman…

The Man Who Risked Death Documenting ISIS

In this episode of “The David Frum Show,” The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with thoughts on the coming midterm elections and the difficult position Republicans now face. He explains the political “fork” confronting Republican candidates: Having attached themselves to an increasingly unpopular presid…

Mosul Eye: The Historian Who Secretly Documented ISIS | Omar Mohammed

For three years, historian Omar Mohammed secretly documented life under the Islamic State as the anonymous blogger Mosul Eye. He speaks with Pamela Paresky about growing up under Saddam Hussein, the Jewish history Iraq erased, the 1941 Farhud, reporting from inside ISIS-held Mosul, and why he belie…

The One-Man Intelligence Operation Against ISIS

It’s not every day that we get a pitch for a book with a foreword by Pope Francis and an introduction by former CIA Director David Petraeus. In fact, our producer didn’t believe it at first. But this is a story about a scholar who became a spy without a spy service. That is exactly what Omar Mohamm…

The One-Man Intelligence Operation Against ISIS

It’s not every day that we get a pitch for a book with a foreword by Pope Francis and an introduction by former CIA Director David Petraeus. In fact, our producer didn’t believe it at first. But this is a story about a scholar who became a spy without a spy service. That is exactly what Omar Mohamm…