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Biography
Dr. Dina Huehn (née Al Raffie) is an assistant professor of International Relations
(IR) and International Security Studies (ISS).
Huehn has served as a returning adjunct professor on the George C. Marshall Center’s Program on Terrorism and Security Studies (PTSS) since 2013, and throughout her seven years in Europe following the completion of her M.A. in International Security Studies in 2011, lectured and taught in various locations across Europe, at both university and practitioner levels.
Organizations and projects Huehn has been commissioned by as speaker or non-resident research fellow include the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) in the Hague, the George Washington University’s Program on Extremism (PoE), the European Union’s CT MORSE project on P/CVE, US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) and Allied Joint Force Command, Naples, Italy. More recently, Huehn has consulted the US Department of Justice (DOJ) Criminal Division’s EMPoWER program, which works with partner nations to train and incorporate women in counterterrorism (CT).
Dr. Huehn has published (under her maiden name, Al Raffie) on a variety of terrorism-related topics including the identity dynamics of radicalization, terrorist leadership, terrorist motivations, countering violent extremism (CVE), deradicalization of Egyptian militant groups, and non-Western counterterrorism and counterinsurgency practices, with a focus on her home country at birth, Egypt. Recent publications – published and forthcoming– address extremist Islamic ideology and terrorism, modern-day slavery in the Middle East, CT-related intelligence sharing and the comparative intelligence operations of non-state armed groups.
Huehn is conversant in Arabic, English, and German.
Huehn has served as a returning adjunct professor on the George C. Marshall Center’s Program on Terrorism and Security Studies (PTSS) since 2013, and throughout her seven years in Europe following the completion of her M.A. in International Security Studies in 2011, lectured and taught in various locations across Europe, at both university and practitioner levels.
Organizations and projects Huehn has been commissioned by as speaker or non-resident research fellow include the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) in the Hague, the George Washington University’s Program on Extremism (PoE), the European Union’s CT MORSE project on P/CVE, US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) and Allied Joint Force Command, Naples, Italy. More recently, Huehn has consulted the US Department of Justice (DOJ) Criminal Division’s EMPoWER program, which works with partner nations to train and incorporate women in counterterrorism (CT).
Dr. Huehn has published (under her maiden name, Al Raffie) on a variety of terrorism-related topics including the identity dynamics of radicalization, terrorist leadership, terrorist motivations, countering violent extremism (CVE), deradicalization of Egyptian militant groups, and non-Western counterterrorism and counterinsurgency practices, with a focus on her home country at birth, Egypt. Recent publications – published and forthcoming– address extremist Islamic ideology and terrorism, modern-day slavery in the Middle East, CT-related intelligence sharing and the comparative intelligence operations of non-state armed groups.
Huehn is conversant in Arabic, English, and German.
Education
- Ph.D. Global Law, University of Navarra
- M.A. International Security Studies, German Federal Armed Forces University (Universität der Bundeswehr München)
- B.Sc. Management, German University in Cairo
Profile Information
- IR 102 Careers in IR
- IR 145 Global Society
- IR 200 Writing and Research in IR
- IR 220 The Arabs
- IR 265 Global Feminist Voices in IR
- IR 272 Governance and National Security in the Arab World
- IR 315 Women in Global Conflict
- IR 393 Political and Economic Geography
- IR 415 Twenty-First Century Terrorism
- IR 417 Armed Groups
- IR 423W Comparative Intelligence Agencies
- IR 435 Political Islam
- IR 491 Internship
- IR 493W Directed Readings
Journal Articles/White Papers/Other
Book Chapters
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Al Raffie, Dina. "Comparative intelligence operations of nonstate armed groups: a comprehensive review." Intelligence and National Security, 40, no. 7 (2025).
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Al Raffie, Dina, "We Must Deal with the Devil on Counterterrorism," Center for European Policy Analysis, April 16, 2024. We Must Deal With the Devil on Counter-Terrorism
- Al Raffie, Dina. "After the Islamic State, Renewed Urgency for Religious Reform." The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. April 2019. After the Islamic State, Renewed Urgency for Religious Reform
- Al Raffie, Dina. "The Identity-Extremism Nexus: Countering Islamist Extremism in the West." George Washington University Program on Extremism. October 2015.
- Al Raffie, Dina. "Straight From the Horse's Mouth: Exploring Deradicalization Claims of Former Egyptian Militant Leaders." Perspectives on Terrorism, 9, no. 1 (2015).
- Al Raffie, Dina. "Social Identity Theory for Investigating Islamic Extremism in the Diaspora." Journal of Strategic Security, 6, no. 4 (2013): 67-91.
- Al Raffie, Dina. "Whose Hearts and Minds? Narratives and Counter-Narratives of Global Jihadism," Journal of Terrorism Research 3, no. 2 (2012): 13-31.
Book Chapters
- Al Raffie, Dina. "Enslaved by the Street: Contemporary Forms of Slavery among the Street Children of Cairo." In Slavery in the Modern Middle East and North Africa: Exploitation and Resistance from the 19th Century - Present Day, edited by Elena Andreeva and Kevin McNeer, (page range TBD). London: I.B. Tauris (2023) – Forthcoming
- Al Raffie, Dina. "Extremist Islamic Ideology and Terrorism." In The Routledge Handbook of Ideology and International Relations, edited by Jonathan Leader Maynard and Mark L. Haas, 95-113. UK: Routledge (2022).
- Al Raffie, Dina. "Extremism in Moderation: Understanding State Responses to Terrorism in Egypt." In Non-Western CT Responses, edited by Michael J. Boyle. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2018.
- Al Raffie, Dina, and Matthias Huehn. "Leaders in Terrorism: Lessons for Ethical Leadership." In Leadership Lessons from Compelling Contexts, edited by Susanne Braun, Birgit Schyns, and Claudia Peus. UK: Emerald Publishing, 2016.
- Al Raffie, Dina. "Terrorist Motivations." In Combating Transnational Terrorism, edited by James K. Wither and Sam Mullins. Sofia: Procon, 2016.
- "Syria at a Crossroads," Texas A&M, College Station, Texas (September 16, 2025)
- Gender and Leadership in Counterterrorism symposium sponsored by Department of Justice (DoJ) ICITAP’s Engaging Multinational Policewomen on Equality and Rights (EMPoWER) Amman, Jordan (February 2024)
- “Women’s Experiences Living Abroad,” Robert Morris University, Pittsburgh, PA (April 2019)
- "NATO and Shared Security Challenges in the South: Understanding Drivers of Instability," NATO Joint Force Command HQ, Naples, Italy (April 2018)
- Global Counterterrorism Alumni Community of Interest (GT-COI)
- Workshop: "The Role of Women in Countering Terrorism and Violent Extremism: Sharing Global Best Practices and ExperienceCountering Terrorism." George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany (January 2017)
- “EU-Med Cooperation in Security,” Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Economiques et Sociales, Tunis, Tunisia (November, 2016)
- United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) High-Level Meeting on “Global Efforts in Integrating a Youth Dimension in Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism,” New York City, USA (September 2016)
- "Perspectives on Countering Foreign Terrorist Fighters" George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany (November 2015).
- “Migration and Refugees: Transnational Security Issues Seminar,” Sofia, Bulgaria (April 2015)
- "The 'Islamic State': A New Era in Transnational Terrorism?" George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany (December 2014).
- Central Asia Alumni Workshop “Confronting Radicalization and Extremism,” George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany (November 2011).