Reem Ahmed

Researcher
Contact
ahmed@ifsh.de
Hamburg
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Vita

Reem Ahmed is a researcher in the Societal Peace and Internal Security research area. She previously worked on the BMBF-funded project Configurations of social and political practices in dealing with radical Islam (KURI) and the EU-funded VOX-Pol Network of Excellence. She is also a doctoral candidate at the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law (AMBSL) at the University of Hamburg. Reem Ahmed studied Political Science and International Security at the University of Leeds, the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

 

Research profile

  • Terrorism
  • Radicalisation
  • Online extremism
  • Platform regulation
  • Counter-terrorism and counter-terrorism policy
  • Counter-extremism policy

 

Latest Publications

Governing threats through ambiguity: the construction of the dangerous person in the German parliamentary discourse

Reem Ahmed, Isabelle Stephanblome, in: Critical Studies on Terrorism, 19.1.2026.

Selected Publications

  • Ahmed, Reem, Daniela Pisoiu. 2021. Uniting the far right: how the far-right extremist, New Right, and populist frames overlap on Twitter – a German case study. European Societies 23 (2): 232-254. DOI: 10.1080/14616696.2020.1818112.
  • Ahmed, Reem. 2019. Online Radicalisation: Current Debates and State Responses. S+F, Sicherheit und Frieden - Security and Peace 37 (2): 87-91. DOI: 10.5771/0175-274X-2019-2-87.
  • Ahmed, Reem. 2017. Brexit: The Mainstreaming of Right-Wing Populist Discourse. In: OSCE Yearbook 2016, edited by Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg/ IFSH , 93-105. Baden-Baden : Nomos Verlag .
  • Ahmed, Reem. 2018. Brexit: die Enttabuisierung des rechtspopulistischen Diskurses. In: OSZE-Jahrbuch 2016, edited by Institut für Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik an der Universität Hamburg/ IFSH , 105-119. Baden-Baden : Nomos Verlag .
  • Ahmed, Reem, Daniela Pisoiu. 2017. Beyond Borders: Subcultural Theory and the Transnational Jihadi Identity in Europe. In: Border Politics: Defining Spaces of Governance and Forms of Transgressions, edited by Cengiz Günay , Nina Witjes , 161-174. Cham : Springer . DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-46855-6_10.
  • Pohjonen, Matti, Reem Ahmed. 2016. Narratives of Risk: Assessing the Discourse of Online Extremism and Measures proposed to Counter It. S+F, Sicherheit und Frieden - Security and Peace 34 (4): 236-241. DOI: 10.5771/0175-274X-2016-4-236.
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