Online Jihadi Storytelling: The Case of Najm al-Din Azad

Gilbert Ramsay

Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 2023, vol. 46, issue 3, 229-248

Abstract: Despite great interest in the importance of “narrative” to the global jihadi movement, research on actual examples of jihadi storytelling has been very limited to date. In this paper, I discuss the phenomenon of jihadi storytelling, specifically in digital contexts, focusing on the case study of one storyteller in particular: “Najm al-Din Azad”, a Saudi jihadist who tweeted and blogged a collection of “Tales of the Heroism of the Mujahidin” while participating in the Syrian civil war.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2020.1777711

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