Lorenzo G. Vidino is an Italian-American writer on

Islamism Islamism (also often called political Islam or Islamic fundamentalism) is a political ideology which posits that modern states and regions should be reconstituted in constitutional, economic and judicial terms, in accordance with what is ...

in Europe and North America. He was born in

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

, Italy. He holds a law degree from the

University of Milan The University of Milan ( it, Università degli Studi di Milano; la, Universitas Studiorum Mediolanensis), known colloquially as UniMi or Statale, is a public research university in Milan, Italy. It is one of the largest universities in Europe ...

and a Ph.D. from the

Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy is the graduate school of international affairs of Tufts University, in Medford, Massachusetts. The School is one of America's oldest graduate schools of international relations and is well-ranked in it ...

Career

A visiting fellow at the

RAND Corporation The RAND Corporation (from the phrase "research and development") is an American nonprofit global policy think tank created in 1948 by Douglas Aircraft Company to offer research and analysis to the United States Armed Forces. It is financed ...

in Washington, DC from October 2010, Vidino previously held fellowships at the

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs The Robert and Renée Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, also known as the Belfer Center, is a research center located within the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University, in the United States. From 2017 until his death in Oc ...

, Kennedy School of Government,

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

; the U.S. Institute of Peace; and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; and was a policy adviser at

European Foundation for Democracy The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a policy centre and a registered EU lobbyist organization based in Brussels, Belgium. Its activities focus on counter-radicalisation, security and the promotion of the European values of democracy ...

. Vidino was chosen to head the George Washington University Center for Cyber and Homeland Security's Program on Extremism, which launched in June 2015. He advises the Austrian Documentation Center for Political Islam, an organization that co-published the highly disputed 'Islam map', an overview of locations and affiliations of more than 600 mosques and Muslim associations in Austria. Vidino is the author of three books, a number of congressional testimonies, and frequent articles in several prominent newspapers and academic journals. His main field is the

Muslim Brotherhood The Society of the Muslim Brothers ( ar, جماعة الإخوان المسلمين'' ''), better known as the Muslim Brotherhood ( ', is a transnational Sunni Islamist organization founded in Egypt by Islamic scholar and schoolteacher Hassan ...

, which he describes as "a modern day Trojan horse engaged in a sort of stealth subversion aimed at weakening Western society from within."

Publications

* ''Al Qaeda in Europe: The New Battleground of International Jihad'' (2005) * ''Aims and Methods of Europe's Muslim Brotherhood'' (2006) * ''The New Muslim Brotherhood in the West'' (2010) * ''The Muslim Brotherhood in Austria'' (2017) * ''The Closed Circle: Joining and Leaving the Muslim Brotherhood in the West'' (2020)

References

External links

Former official website on the Wayback Machine

The New Muslim Brotherhood in the West
{{DEFAULTSORT:Vidino, Lorenzo G. Living people Writers from Milan Italian male writers The Fletcher School at Tufts University alumni Elliott School of International Affairs faculty Year of birth missing (living people)