Women and ISIS/Islamic State recruitment

Press/Media: Press / Media

Period21 Jan 2016 → 17 Sept 2018

Media contributions

7

Media contributions

  • TitleTony Blair Institute for Global Change - White Widows: The Myth of the Deadliest Jihadi Women
    Degree of recognitionInternational
    Media name/outletTony Blair Institute for Global Change
    Media typeWeb
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    Date17/09/18
    DescriptionThe idea that converts to Islam make the most violent jihadi women only disrupts counter-extremism efforts.
    PersonsKatherine Brown
  • TitleBBC Radio 4, Women's Hour - Propaganda video from Islamic State shows women fighting on the frontline for the first time
    Degree of recognitionNational
    Media name/outletBBC Radio 4
    Media typeRadio
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    Date12/02/18
    DescriptionA new propaganda video from so called Islamic State shows women fighting on the frontline for the first time. What does this change of tactic tell us about women's role within ISIS? Elizabeth Pearson, Associate Fellow at the independent think tank, RUSI and Dr Katherine Brown, Lecturer in Islamic studies at Birmingham University join Jane.
    PersonsKatherine Brown
  • TitleBBC Radio 4, The World Tonight - Women in ISIS
    Degree of recognitionNational
    Media name/outletBBC Radio 4
    Media typeRadio
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    Date26/06/17
    DescriptionWe have a story of a German teenager who had runaway to join IS - we speak to an Iraqi journalist who met her.
    PersonsKatherine Brown
  • TitleBBC Radio 4, Women's Hour - Women's involvement in ISIS
    Degree of recognitionNational
    Media name/outletBBC Radio 4
    Media typeRadio
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    Date15/09/16
    DescriptionIn France three women are under formal investigation over an alleged foiled attack in Paris. It has been reported in the press that British convert Sally Jones is training Jihadi women to attack the West. What do we know about women's involvement in terrorism, particularly the so called Islamic State? Jenni is joined by the BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner and Dr Katherine Brown, Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Birmingham.
    PersonsKatherine Brown
  • TitleE-International Relations - Gender and Countering Islamic State Radicalisation
    Degree of recognitionInternational
    Media name/outletE-International Relations
    Media typeWeb
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    Date18/02/16
    PersonsKatherine Brown
  • TitleBBC One, Inside out Yorkshire & Lincolnshire - ISIS recruitment
    Degree of recognitionNational
    Media name/outletBBC One
    Media typeTelevision
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    Date25/01/16
    DescriptionWe go undercover to investigate the tactics used by so-called Islamic State to persuade young people to travel to Syria and Iraq, and meet the Yorkshire people worried their children could fall victim.
    PersonsKatherine Brown
  • TitleCNN - ISIS using 'jihotties' to recruit brides for fighters
    Degree of recognitionNational
    Media name/outletCNN
    Media typeTelevision
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    Date21/01/16
    DescriptionSIS is using men displaying their masculinity called "jihotties" online to recruit women to become brides for ISIS fighters.
    PersonsKatherine Brown
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Other

TitleJihadi Janes: Radicalised by Religion or Romance?
LocationBradford, United Kingdom
Period28 May 2016
Linkhttps://www.bradfordlitfest.co.uk/event/jihadi-janes-radicalised-religion-romance/

Keywords

  • ISIS
  • Islamic State
  • radicalisation
  • gender
  • female fighters