Weeda Mehran
Biographic Data
| ID | 3086812 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Weeda Mehran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Weeda |
| FAMILY NAME | Mehran |
| SIGNATURE | MEHRAN W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0207-919X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Comparative analysis of gendered frames in far-right rhetoric in the West
This research delves into the examination of gender frames within a number of far-right platforms, such as American Renaissance, Heritage and Destiny, Britain First, Daily Stormer, and Front Page Magazine. Our primary objective is to dissect the construction of gendered frames and their consequential roles within the broader far-right political and ideological landscapes in the West. Employing a mixed-method approach, we scrutinize English langua…
Strategic drivers of multimodal messaging: A Comparative Analysis of Is and the Taliban
Nothing in Common? Analysis of Moral, Psychological, and Social Factors in the Identity Construction of Far-Right and Violent Jihadi Extremists
Old ties, new relations? Taliban’s victory and violent jihadi groups in Afghanistan
This paper analyzes the relationship between the Taliban and violent jihadi extremist (VJE) organizations present and/or operating in Afghanistan. Jihadi relations are examined within the analytical frameworks of cooperation, and competition. By conducting an in-depth analysis of the Taliban’s interactions with other violent extremist groups – such as Al-Qaeda, Islamic State-Khorasan Province, and Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan – we highlight the nuan…
Rebel Governance: An analysis of the Taliban’s Governance from 2001-2021
This paper assesses the Taliban’s role in delivering four key services – taxation, security, justice, and education – from 2001 to 2021. Our analysis highlights that the provision of these services by the Taliban is a multifaceted process, influenced by various stakeholders including local communities and the government. The Taliban’s service delivery approach is marked by competition with the government, as they seek to undermine and replace gov…
Kabul and Washington: How it all went wrong
Spies, Lies, and Algorithms is stimulating, highly intelligent and extremely well-informed.Some readers, however, will be a little troubled by its focus on capability over accountability.Is effective congressional oversight quite as dim a prospect as Zegart implies?She actually quotes a remark of former National Security Agency chief of legislative affairs, William Nolte, to the effect that more active oversight in the years immediately following…
Humour in jihadi rhetoric: Comparative analysis of Isis, Al-Qaeda, TTP, and the Taliban
Research shows that humour plays a significant role in the formation of a collective identity and ‘creates a sense of internal cohesion’ based on shared experiences [Fominaya, C. F. (2007). The role of humour in the process of collective identity formation in autonomous social movement groups in contemporary Madrid. International Review of Social History, 52(S15), 243–258. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020859007003227]. In this paper, we focus on hum…
Two Sides of the Same Coin? A Largescale Comparative Analysis of Extreme Right and Jihadi Online Text(s)
This article describes and discusses a comparative semiotic analysis of online text collected from eight extreme right websites and four violent jihadi groups’ online magazines. The two datasets, which comprise just over 1 million words each, were analyzed using LIWC software. The core issues explored were the shared and different linguistic patterns used among extreme right and violent jihadi extremists and the emotional, cognitive, psychologica…
The depiction of women in jihadi magazines: A comparative analysis of Islamic State, Al Qaeda, Taliban and Tahrik-e Taliban Pakistan
In its magazine, Sunnat-e Khola, Tahrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) called upon women to rise because the ‘Time of Martyrdom has come’. This research addresses questions surrounding how women are framed in jihadi rhetoric and what roles they play within these frames. Using a mixed-methods approach, we analysed sixty-eight jihadi magazines by Islamic State (ISIS), TTP, Al Qaeda, and Taliban, generating 3,417 codes which were further sorted into relev…
My journey to jihad’: Featured stories in jihadi propaganda
In this research, we conduct a systematic comparative analysis of 366 stories extracted from English-language magazines by ISIS, Al Qaeda, Tehrik-e Taliban of Pakistan (TTP) and the Taliban. We employ the Information, Motivation, and Behavior Skills (IMB) model of behavior change to conduct in-depth qualitative and quantitative analysis of these stories. By focusing on stories featured in jihadi magazines, this research illustrates that (1) stori…
Deep Analysis of Taliban Videos: Differential Use of Multimodal, Visual and Sonic Forms across Strategic Themes
Videos showing the Taliban on battlefields, flaunting weapons and ammunition, military capabilities and conquests by the group, or depicting suffering and casualties constitute a significant component of the Taliban’s media campaign alongside magazines, images, and taranas (anashid/vocalization). The extant literature on the Taliban’s propaganda material primarily focuses on online texts, night letters, and magazines, while less scholarly attenti…
Neopatrimonialism in Afghanistan: Former Warlords, New Democratic Bureaucrats
An indispensable part of the liberal peacebuilding package is rebuilding effective and meritocratic administrative structures. This paper analyses building state institutions in Afghanistan with a focus on the role of warlords in the process. The findings are based on in-depth interviews conducted from 2012 to 2016 in five different provinces of Afghanistan. The paper uses neopatrimonialism as an analytical framework to shed light on our understa…
The Arabs at war in Afghanistan
The presence of Arab fighters in Afghanistan during years of jihad against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, and its contribution to a number of extremist jihadi networks operating today
Democratic peacebuilding: Aiding Afghanistan and other fragile states
School, work and community-level differences in Afghanistan and Tajikistan: Divergence in secondary school enrolment of youth
Youth in Tajikistan and Afghanistan struggle to attend secondary school. Educational research indicates that individual, family and community factors are key determinants of educational participation. The question that dominated past research was whether family or community variables had a greater influence on educational participation. Instead, this article asks how the community context shapes the influence of family characteristics on educatio…
My journey to jihad’: Featured stories in jihadi propaganda
In this research, we conduct a systematic comparative analysis of 366 stories extracted from English-language magazines by ISIS, Al Qaeda, Tehrik-e Taliban of Pakistan (TTP) and the Taliban. We employ the Information, Motivation, and Behavior Skills (IMB) model of behavior change to conduct in-depth qualitative and quantitative analysis of these stories. By focusing on stories featured in jihadi magazines, this research illustrates that (1) stori…
Deep Analysis of Taliban Videos: Differential Use of Multimodal, Visual and Sonic Forms across Strategic Themes
Videos showing the Taliban on battlefields, flaunting weapons and ammunition, military capabilities and conquests by the group, or depicting suffering and casualties constitute a significant component of the Taliban’s media campaign alongside magazines, images, and taranas (anashid/vocalization). The extant literature on the Taliban’s propaganda material primarily focuses on online texts, night letters, and magazines, while less scholarly attenti…
School, work and community-level differences in Afghanistan and Tajikistan: Divergence in secondary school enrolment of youth
Youth in Tajikistan and Afghanistan struggle to attend secondary school. Educational research indicates that individual, family and community factors are key determinants of educational participation. The question that dominated past research was whether family or community variables had a greater influence on educational participation. Instead, this article asks how the community context shapes the influence of family characteristics on educatio…
Old ties, new relations? Taliban’s victory and violent jihadi groups in Afghanistan
This paper analyzes the relationship between the Taliban and violent jihadi extremist (VJE) organizations present and/or operating in Afghanistan. Jihadi relations are examined within the analytical frameworks of cooperation, and competition. By conducting an in-depth analysis of the Taliban’s interactions with other violent extremist groups – such as Al-Qaeda, Islamic State-Khorasan Province, and Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan – we highlight the nuan…
Rebel Governance: An analysis of the Taliban’s Governance from 2001-2021
This paper assesses the Taliban’s role in delivering four key services – taxation, security, justice, and education – from 2001 to 2021. Our analysis highlights that the provision of these services by the Taliban is a multifaceted process, influenced by various stakeholders including local communities and the government. The Taliban’s service delivery approach is marked by competition with the government, as they seek to undermine and replace gov…
Neopatrimonialism in Afghanistan: Former Warlords, New Democratic Bureaucrats
An indispensable part of the liberal peacebuilding package is rebuilding effective and meritocratic administrative structures. This paper analyses building state institutions in Afghanistan with a focus on the role of warlords in the process. The findings are based on in-depth interviews conducted from 2012 to 2016 in five different provinces of Afghanistan. The paper uses neopatrimonialism as an analytical framework to shed light on our understa…
School, work and community-level differences in Afghanistan and Tajikistan: Divergence in secondary school enrolment of youth
Youth in Tajikistan and Afghanistan struggle to attend secondary school. Educational research indicates that individual, family and community factors are key determinants of educational participation. The question that dominated past research was whether family or community variables had a greater influence on educational participation. Instead, this article asks how the community context shapes the influence of family characteristics on educatio…
Democratic peacebuilding: Aiding Afghanistan and other fragile states
The Arabs at war in Afghanistan
The presence of Arab fighters in Afghanistan during years of jihad against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, and its contribution to a number of extremist jihadi networks operating today
Neopatrimonialism in Afghanistan: Former Warlords, New Democratic Bureaucrats
An indispensable part of the liberal peacebuilding package is rebuilding effective and meritocratic administrative structures. This paper analyses building state institutions in Afghanistan with a focus on the role of warlords in the process. The findings are based on in-depth interviews conducted from 2012 to 2016 in five different provinces of Afghanistan. The paper uses neopatrimonialism as an analytical framework to shed light on our understa…
My journey to jihad’: Featured stories in jihadi propaganda
In this research, we conduct a systematic comparative analysis of 366 stories extracted from English-language magazines by ISIS, Al Qaeda, Tehrik-e Taliban of Pakistan (TTP) and the Taliban. We employ the Information, Motivation, and Behavior Skills (IMB) model of behavior change to conduct in-depth qualitative and quantitative analysis of these stories. By focusing on stories featured in jihadi magazines, this research illustrates that (1) stori…
Deep Analysis of Taliban Videos: Differential Use of Multimodal, Visual and Sonic Forms across Strategic Themes
Videos showing the Taliban on battlefields, flaunting weapons and ammunition, military capabilities and conquests by the group, or depicting suffering and casualties constitute a significant component of the Taliban’s media campaign alongside magazines, images, and taranas (anashid/vocalization). The extant literature on the Taliban’s propaganda material primarily focuses on online texts, night letters, and magazines, while less scholarly attenti…
Humour in jihadi rhetoric: Comparative analysis of Isis, Al-Qaeda, TTP, and the Taliban
Research shows that humour plays a significant role in the formation of a collective identity and ‘creates a sense of internal cohesion’ based on shared experiences [Fominaya, C. F. (2007). The role of humour in the process of collective identity formation in autonomous social movement groups in contemporary Madrid. International Review of Social History, 52(S15), 243–258. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020859007003227]. In this paper, we focus on hum…
Two Sides of the Same Coin? A Largescale Comparative Analysis of Extreme Right and Jihadi Online Text(s)
This article describes and discusses a comparative semiotic analysis of online text collected from eight extreme right websites and four violent jihadi groups’ online magazines. The two datasets, which comprise just over 1 million words each, were analyzed using LIWC software. The core issues explored were the shared and different linguistic patterns used among extreme right and violent jihadi extremists and the emotional, cognitive, psychologica…
The depiction of women in jihadi magazines: A comparative analysis of Islamic State, Al Qaeda, Taliban and Tahrik-e Taliban Pakistan
In its magazine, Sunnat-e Khola, Tahrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) called upon women to rise because the ‘Time of Martyrdom has come’. This research addresses questions surrounding how women are framed in jihadi rhetoric and what roles they play within these frames. Using a mixed-methods approach, we analysed sixty-eight jihadi magazines by Islamic State (ISIS), TTP, Al Qaeda, and Taliban, generating 3,417 codes which were further sorted into relev…
Rebel Governance: An analysis of the Taliban’s Governance from 2001-2021
This paper assesses the Taliban’s role in delivering four key services – taxation, security, justice, and education – from 2001 to 2021. Our analysis highlights that the provision of these services by the Taliban is a multifaceted process, influenced by various stakeholders including local communities and the government. The Taliban’s service delivery approach is marked by competition with the government, as they seek to undermine and replace gov…
Kabul and Washington: How it all went wrong
Spies, Lies, and Algorithms is stimulating, highly intelligent and extremely well-informed.Some readers, however, will be a little troubled by its focus on capability over accountability.Is effective congressional oversight quite as dim a prospect as Zegart implies?She actually quotes a remark of former National Security Agency chief of legislative affairs, William Nolte, to the effect that more active oversight in the years immediately following…
Strategic drivers of multimodal messaging: A Comparative Analysis of Is and the Taliban
Nothing in Common? Analysis of Moral, Psychological, and Social Factors in the Identity Construction of Far-Right and Violent Jihadi Extremists
Old ties, new relations? Taliban’s victory and violent jihadi groups in Afghanistan
This paper analyzes the relationship between the Taliban and violent jihadi extremist (VJE) organizations present and/or operating in Afghanistan. Jihadi relations are examined within the analytical frameworks of cooperation, and competition. By conducting an in-depth analysis of the Taliban’s interactions with other violent extremist groups – such as Al-Qaeda, Islamic State-Khorasan Province, and Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan – we highlight the nuan…
Comparative analysis of gendered frames in far-right rhetoric in the West
This research delves into the examination of gender frames within a number of far-right platforms, such as American Renaissance, Heritage and Destiny, Britain First, Daily Stormer, and Front Page Magazine. Our primary objective is to dissect the construction of gendered frames and their consequential roles within the broader far-right political and ideological landscapes in the West. Employing a mixed-method approach, we scrutinize English langua…
Political science (14 works) · Law (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (8 works) · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (7 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Rhetoric (5 works) · Political Conflict and Governance (4 works)