Ebby L. Abramson

Ebby Abramson is a PhD student in the political science program at the University of Ottawa and a research associate for Endangered Scholars Worldwide. He researches the impact of counterterrorism policies. He has worked for the United Nations and as a researcher for The New School and the Cardozo School of Law.

Articles by this author

Al-Qaeda is suddenly framing itself as a Black Lives Matter champion

Shortly after George Floyd’s killing by a police officer in Minneapolis, the insurgent group al-Qaeda released a new 83-page issue of its magazine One Ummah (“one nation under God”) in an effort to rebrand itself …

What is gained by stripping ISIL returnees of citizenship?

The first ISIL recruit I interviewed, in 2014 in Delft, the Netherlands, was a 22-year-old woman who had become an ISIL bride after being indoctrinated by a recruiter. It took the recruiter two months of …