Omar Ashour is a British-Canadian security and military studies academic and a former martial arts champion.

Academic career

Ashour is the author o

(Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021) an
''The Deradicalization of Jihadists: Transforming Armed Islamist Movements''
(London, New York: Routledge, 2009). Ashour has published about de-radicalization, counter-narratives, and transitions to democracy.

Martial Arts

Ashour is a

Taekwondo ''Taekwondo'', ''Tae Kwon Do'' or ''Taekwon-Do'' (; ko, 태권도/跆拳道 ) is a Korean form of martial arts involving punching and kicking techniques, with emphasis on head-height kicks, spinning jump kicks, and fast kicking techniques. ...

master and a kickboxer. He was a member of the Egyptian National

team. His record includes a bronze medal in the World Junior Taekwondo Championship and a silver medal in Africa’s Taekwondo championship. He was the Egyptian national champion six times in the bantam and feather weight categories. He was also the two-times national champion in Chinese Kickboxing (

Sanshou Sanda (), formerly Sanshou (), also known as Chinese boxing or Chinese kickboxing, is the official Chinese kickboxing full-contact combat sport. Sanda is a fighting system which was originally developed by the Chinese military based upon the s ...

). In 2007, he joined the Canadian National Karate Team and won the Gold medal in the All Japan Koshiki Karate-Do Federation Championship in the middle-weight category, defeating seven-times World Champion, Masamitsu Hisataka via unanimous decision.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ashour, Omar Canadian political scientists Academics of the University of Exeter Living people Year of birth missing (living people)