Media - MARA R. REVKIN

Selected Popular Writings and Op-Eds

Megan A. Stewart, Jonathan B. Petkun & Mara Revkin, “The Progressive Case Against Retrenchment,” Foreign Affairs (Jun. 2024)
Kristen Kao & Mara Revkin, “How the Iraqi Crackdown on the Islamic State May Actually Increase Support for the Islamic State,” Washington Post (Jan. 7, 2019)
Mara Revkin, “Iraq’s Harsh Approach to Punishing Islamic State ‘Collaborators’ Stands to Have Counterproductive Consequences,” Lawfare (Jun. 11, 2018)
Mara Revkin, “How Militants in Iraq Recruit Children,” Washington Post (Feb. 14, 2018)
Mara Revkin, “The Egyptian State Unravels: Meet the Gangs and Vigilantes Who Thrive Under Morsi,” Foreign Affairs (Jun. 27, 2013). Author pre-print (PDF)
Mara Revkin & Ahmad Mhidi, “Quitting ISIS: Why Syrians are Abandoning the Group,” Foreign Affairs Online (May 1, 2016)
Mara Revkin, “ISIS’ Perfect Enemy,” Foreign Affairs Online (Nov. 14, 2016)
Mara Revkin, “Does ISIS Need Territory to Survive?,” New York Times (Oct. 20, 2016)
Andrew F. March & Mara Revkin, “Caliphate of Law,” Foreign Affairs (Apr. 15, 2015)

View of Cairo and the Nile River (2013)

Rozina Ali, “The ISIS Beat,” The Drift Magazine (Apr. 27, 2021)
Sam Ratner, “Civilian decisions in conflict: Part I,” Public Radio International (Sept. 22, 2020)
Louisa Loveluck & Mustafa Salim, “ISIS exploits Iraq’s coronavirus lockdown to step up attacks,” Washington Post (May 8, 2020)
Louisa Loveluck, “As the ‘caliphate crumbles,’ the Islamic State is seeding a new insurgency,” Washington Post (Mar. 7, 2019)
Tim Lister, “ISIS is far from being defeated as a fighting force or ideology,” CNN (Jan. 9, 2019)
Rukmini Callimachi & Michael Slackman, “Why We Collected ISIS’ Internal Documents, and What Happens Next,” New York Times (May 31, 2018)
Rukmini Callimachi, “The ISIS Files,” New York Times (Apr. 4, 2018)
Tim Arango, “ISIS Transforming Into Functioning State That Uses Terror as Tool,” New York Times (Jul. 21, 2015)
Joanna Paraszczuk, “Heart Of Darkness: The Core Beliefs Justifying IS Brutality,” Radio Free Europe (May 6, 2015)

فيروس كورونا «يحيي» الدواعش في العراق (“Coronavirus ‘Revives’ Daesh Militants in Iraq”), الحرة (“Alhurra”) (May 8, 2020) [archived]
Mohamed Ali Saleh, تقرير أميركي: هزيمة «داعش» قد تشعل جاذبيته (“American Report: The Defeat of Daesh May Rekindle Its Appeal”), الشرق الأوسط (“Asharq Al-Awsat”) (Mar. 9, 2019)
Dana Hadra, مواطن ضعف النظام القانوني لداعش (“Vulnerabilities of the Legal System of Daesh”), الوطن (“Al-Watan”) (Aug. 2, 2016)

Ayesha Rascoe, “Nearly 6 years after it was wiped out, is ISIS having a possible resurgence?” NPR Weekend Edition (Jan. 5, 2025)
Mara Revkin & Justin Schon, “Decision Making in Armed Conflict,” Beyond Compliance Consortium (Nov. 3, 2024)
Radio Miraya (UN South Sudan), “Launch of Fragility Index Report in South Sudan,” (Oct. 29, 2024)
Adam Day, “The Battle Against ISIS in Iraq (Part 2),” Hybrid Wars—United Nations University Centre for Policy Research (Oct. 23, 2020)
Korva Coleman, “What Life After ISIS Looks Like In Iraq,” National Public Radio (Mar. 30, 2019)
Sarah El-Sharaawi, “A Just State? A Look Inside the Tyranny of ISIS,” Arab Media & Society (Jul. 25, 2016)