NANCY HARTEVELT KOBRIN, PH.D.
World-Acclaimed Counter-Terrorism
Expert and Author
Dr. Nancy Hartevelt Korbin is a world renowned counter-terrorism expert and author. She holds a doctorate in Islamic literature and is a psychoanalyst counter-terrorist expert specializing in early childhood development and the mind and body language of the jihadi. She began her academic career after receiving a doctorate in Islamic literature of medieval Spain.”
A graduate analyst of the Chicago Institute of Psychoanalysis and a trauma expert, Dr Korbin taught and supervised psychiatry residents in Minneapolis, where she had a private practice. After the terrorist attacks of 9/11, she was contacted by the U.S. Army concerning her work on the link between the devalued female and the jihadi suicide attack and was invited by the military and law enforcement to lecture on radical Islam and conduct prison interviews among the Somalis in Minnesota. She is also a graduate of the Human Terrain Program, Leavenworth, Kansas, which is affiliated with the U.S. Army.
In 2010, Dr. Kobrin ― a psychoanalyst, Arabist, and counterterrorism expert ― emigrated from the Twin Cities to Israel, where she continues her work. She is a fellow of the American Center for Democracy. Dr. Kobrin holds an appointment as an external expert at La Universidad de Granada concerning Jihadese. She is also a senior analyst at the Islamic Theology of Counter Terrorism think tank, London. As a prolific author, her book list includes The Banality of Suicide Terrorism (also in Hebrew), Penetrating the Terrorist Psyche, The Maternal Drama of the Chechen Jihadi, The Jihadi Dictionary: The Essential Tool for Military, Law Enforcement, Government and the Concerned Public (French translation in progress), The Last Two Jews of Mogadishu Living Under Al Shabaab’s Fire, Children Who Kill Children: Before and Beyond Brainwashing (in press), and Cultural Terrorism: The Obliteration of the Cultural Object. For more information about Dr. Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin, read her full bio here.