Kabir Taneja is associate fellow at the Observer Research Foundation’s Strategic Studies program in New Delhi, India. He was the 2016 Medienbotschafter Fellow in Germany and before that was guest scholar at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Norway. He has written extensively for the New York Times, Huffington Post, The Diplomat, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and Politico, among others. He is also the author of many seminal reports, the latest being the monograph, The ISIS Phenomenon: South Asia and Beyond. On Twitter: @KabirTaneja.

Writing in the Cairo Review