NANCY HARTEVELT KOBRIN, PH.D, 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.
Dr. Korbin is a fellow of the American Center for Democracy. She 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. Her books are: 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 and Children Who Kill Children: Before and Beyond Brainwashing (in press), and Cultural Terrorism: The Obliteration of the Cultural Object. She is also a contributing author here at AWCR. Read more . . .
Dr. Korbin is a fellow of the American Center for Democracy. She 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. Her books are: 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 and Children Who Kill Children: Before and Beyond Brainwashing (in press), and Cultural Terrorism: The Obliteration of the Cultural Object. She is also a contributing author here at AWCR. Read more . . .
Latest posts by Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin (see all)
- The Violent Brutality of Growing Up in A Shame Honor Culture by Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin, Ph.D. - 05/17/2020
- The Coronavirus and Haredi Children – An Educable Moment? Dr. Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin - 04/13/2020
- A Quick Deep Dive into Why Some Populations Are Not Observing Social Distancing: “Internalizing” the Danger of the Coronavirus in Emotionally Religious Populations and Others and What Must Be Done - 03/27/2020
Seventeen year old Khalil Jabarin violently murdered Ari Fuld who left a wife and four children on Sunday the 16th of September 2018. Jabarin is now being referred to as “a child” by the Palestinian Authority. While technically he is a minor and hi... read more
It is well established within the mental health field that a child’s formative development (from birth to age 3) sets the stage for adaptive or maladaptive behavior. Duly noted, children from high-risk environments cannot only survive but thrive too, th... read more
When Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, is brought up to most Americans (and westerners in general), the first image which springs to mind is the hideous spectacle of the bloodied corpse of U.S. Staff Sgt. William David Cleveland being dragged through the... read more
