Hannah Allam
Hannah Allam is a Washington-based national security correspondent for NPR, focusing on homegrown extremism. Before joining NPR, she was a national correspondent at BuzzFeed News, covering U.S. Muslims and other issues of race, religion and culture. Allam previously reported for McClatchy, spending a decade overseas as bureau chief in Baghdad during the Iraq war and in Cairo during the Arab Spring rebellions. She moved to Washington in 2012 to cover foreign policy, then in 2015 began a yearlong series documenting rising hostility toward Islam in America. Her coverage of Islam in the United States won three national religion reporting awards in 2018 and 2019. Allam was part of McClatchy teams that won an Overseas Press Club award for exposing death squads in Iraq and a Polk Award for reporting on the Syrian conflict. She was a 2009 Nieman fellow at Harvard and currently serves on the board of the International Women's Media Foundation.
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Who was Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and how did he manage to turn ISIS into one of the world's most fearsome terror organizations? He made the organization completely at home in the digital age.
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Counterterrorism analysts warn that ISIS will likely strengthen in light of the Trump administration's decision to pull U.S. forces from the Turkish-Syrian border.
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Online disinformation campaigns thrive in big, polarizing moments for the country — and the impeachment inquiry is no exception.
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The case is the latest in a string of recent arrests and investigations related to attempted far-right infiltration of the U.S. military, prompting calls for more thorough screenings of enlistees. -
Day after day, researchers are immersed in the propaganda of ISIS and neo-Nazi factions. But there's almost no discussion of the mental toll of examining the world's most dangerous extremists. -
Director Kholoud Sawaf wanted to challenge American views of Syria with a play inspired by Romeo and Juliet. Instead, she endured a three-year ordeal involving war, displacement and the travel ban. -
Two years ago, a rally in Charlottesville exposed the violence of the nation's white nationalist movement. Now, victims of that violence want the courts to hold the organizers accountable. -
In 2017, Mike Signer faced a small-town leader's nightmare: a racist rally that spiraled out of control and ended in bloodshed. Two years later, Signer is on a mission of education — and atonement. -
Domestic extremism researchers say the manifesto linked to the El Paso shooter is intended as a call to arms to other white nationalists. Such explicit calls for violence are becoming more common.
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President Trump spoke to the nation from the White House on Monday and called this weekend's mass shootings barbaric slaughters. He named specific causes for the extremist violence.
