Normalizing Israeli-Pakistani Relations: A Groundbreaking Interview with Counter-Terrorism Expert Dr. Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin (Video)
In an effort to normalize Israeli-Pakistani relations, Peer Syed Mudassir Nazar Shah – founder and president of the Islamabad-based Sufi think tank, Salook – interviews our very own Dr. Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin as the first Israeli EVER to be live-streamed and interviewed publicly from Pakistan.
About Peer Syed Mudassir Nazar Shah
Peer Syed Mudassir Nazar Shah is the Sajjada Nasheen of Darbar-e-Alia, Saroba Sharif in Jhelum district. He is also the founder and President of Salook (www.salook.org.pk), an Islamabad-based Sufi think-tank.
About Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin, Ph.D.
Dr. Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin began her academic career after receiving a doctorate in comparative literature, with a focus on the Islamic literature of medieval Spain – Ahadith of the Moriscos. She has a tremendous interest in coexistence of the three Abrahamic faiths. A graduate analyst of the Chicago Institute of Psychoanalysis and a PTSD trauma expert, she 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 ― an internationally renowned counter-terrorism expert ― emigrated from the Twin Cities to Israel, where she continues her work. She is a fellow of the American Center for Democracy and holds an academic appointment as an external expert at La Universidad de Granada concerning Jihadese, the special nonverbal pantomime language that the Jihadis speak related to early childhood trauma in the maternal attachment.
Nancy is also prolific author. Her works include The Banality of Suicide Terrorism (also in Hebrew), Penetrating the Terrorist Psyche, The Maternal Drama of the Chechen Jihadi, The Jihadi Dictionary (soon to be published in French), and The Last Two Jews of Mogadishu Living Under Al Shabaab’s Fire.
