Omar Ashour
{{Short description|British-Canadian academic}}
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Canadian National Karate Team
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Omar Ashour is a British-Canadian security and military studies academic and a former martial arts champion.
Academic career
Dr Ashour obtained his PhD in Politics from McGill University (Canada). He was appointed Lecturer (Assistant Professor), subsequently promoted to Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Security Studies and Middle East Politics, at the Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter (2008-2018), before being appointed Professor of Security and Military Studies and the Founding Chair of the Critical Security Studies Programme at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (Doha, Qatar).{{Cite web |title=Omar Ashour |url=https://lmc.icds.ee/speaker/omar-ashour/ |access-date=2025-01-10 |website=Lennart Meri Conference |language=en-US}}https://www.linkedin.com/in/omar-ashour-908a1367/?originalSubdomain=uk {{Cite web |title=Omar Ashour {{!}} Al Jazeera News {{!}} Today's latest from Al Jazeera |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/author/omar_ashour_2011102014746880774 |access-date=2025-01-10 |website=Al Jazeera |language=en}}
He is the author of How ISIS Fights: Military Tactics in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021){{cite web|last=Ashour |first=Omar |url=https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-how-isis-fights.html |title=How ISIS Fights: Military Tactics in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt (Paperback, Hardback, Ebook) |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |date=February 28, 2021 |accessdate=December 8, 2020}} and The Deradicalization of Jihadists: Transforming Armed Islamist Movements (London, New York: Routledge, 2009).{{cite web|last=Ashour |first=Omar |url=http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415485456/ |title=The De-Radicalization of Jihadists: Transforming Armed Islamist Movements (Hardback) |publisher=Routledge |date=April 6, 2009 |accessdate=October 19, 2011}} Ashour has published about de-radicalization, counter-narratives, and transitions to democracy.{{cite journal|title= Post-Jihadism: Libya and the Global Transformations of Armed Islamist Movements|date=June 1, 2011 |doi=10.1080/09546553.2011.560218 |volume=23 |issue=3 |journal=Terrorism and Political Violence |pages=377–397|last1 = Ashour|first1 = Omar|s2cid=144762016 }}{{cite news|last=Ashour |first=Omar |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14112032 |title=BBC News – Egypt secularists and liberals afraid of democracy? |publisher=BBC |date=July 13, 2011 |accessdate=October 19, 2011|work=BBC News }}https://exeter.academia.edu/OmarAshour
Martial Arts
Ashour is a Taekwondo master and a kickboxer. He was a member of the Egyptian National Taekwondo team. His record includes a bronze medal in the World Junior Taekwondo Championship and a silver medal in Africa’s Taekwondo championship.{{cite web|url=http://www.lacancha.com/tkdhofe.html#EGYPT |title=The Official Taekwondo Hall Of Fame® – Ecuador – Egypt |publisher=Lacancha.com |accessdate=October 19, 2011}} He was the Egyptian national champion six times in the bantam and feather weight categories.{{cite web|url=http://www.taekwondohalloffame.com/ |title=TAEKWONDOHALLOFFAME.COM – Tae Kwon Do Hall Of Fame – Taekwondo Hall of Fame – TaeKwon-Do Hall of Fame – Taekwon-do Hall of Fame – taekwondo hall of fame – Mike Warren – Joe Hayes – Albert Cheeks & Others! |publisher=taekwondo hall of fame |accessdate=October 19, 2011}} He was also the two-times national champion in Chinese Kickboxing (Sanshou). In 2007, he joined the Canadian National Karate Team and won the Gold medal in the World Koshiki Karate Championship in the middle-weight category, defeating seven-times World Champion, Masamitsu Hisataka, via unanimous decision.{{cite web|author= |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6IwHppgxrI |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/t6IwHppgxrI |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=World Koshiki Karate Championships 2007 middle weight Div |publisher=YouTube |date=September 24, 2007 |accessdate=October 19, 2011}}{{cbignore}}
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Category:Canadian political scientists