April 16, 2025

Nelly Lahoud

Nelly Lahoud is Associate Professor in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the U.S. Army War College. Dr. Lahoud’s research has focused on the evolution and ideology of al-Qaeda (AQ) and the “Islamic State” (ISIS/ISIL). Her latest book, The Bin Laden Papers: How the Abbottabad Raid Revealed the Truth about Al-Qaeda, Its Leader and His Family, was published with Yale University Press (2022) and featured on CBS’s 60 Minutes. Lahoud is fluent in Arabic and French.