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    Mr Syed Huzaifah Bin Othman Alkaff

    Associate Research Fellow
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    B, Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Heritage Hons (International Islamic University Malaysia) ; MSc Strategic Studies (RSIS,NTU)
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    : IDSS
    IP21025 | The Infiltration of Jemaah Islamiyah into Indonesian State and Society
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    Mr Syed Huzaifah Bin Othman Alkaff

    Associate Research Fellow
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    B, Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Heritage Hons (International Islamic University Malaysia) ; MSc Strategic Studies (RSIS,NTU)
    : [email protected]
    : +65 6514 8387
    : IDSS

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    Biography

    SYED HUZAIFAH ALKAFF is a Associate Research Fellow at the Indonesia Programme at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He graduated with a Masters in Strategic Studies from the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He also holds a Bachelor Degree of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Heritage in Fiqh (Islamic Jurisprudence) and Usul Al-Fiqh (Principles of Jurisprudence) with minor in communication from the International Islamic University of Malaysia (IIUM).

    He has experience working in the Risk and Compliance industry with Dow Jones Risk & Compliance (also known as Dow Jones Watchlist) for about 5 years as a research editor overseeing Middle Eastern region. Hence, he has an extensive understanding of that region in addition to have been living in Kuwait for six years. He obtained a scholarship from the Kuwaiti government to complete his high school education in Kuwait. He has been working with ICPVTR overseeing Middle East and North Africa desk for 4 years and his work focuses on analysing trends and patterns of extremist and terrorist entities in that region. He is fluent in three languages – Malay, English and Arabic.

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    Areas of Expertise

    • Middle Eastern and North African politics
    • Political Islam
    • Islamic Jurisprudence
    • Communication

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    RSIS Publications

      Commentaries

      • Ties with Israel: Indonesia Not Like Morocco

        12 January, 2021

      • Pensacola Shooting: Missing Piece in Saudis’ Social Reforms

        19 December, 2019

      • New Pro-Islamic State Magazine: A Persistent Ideological Threat

        07 March, 2019

      • 2019 Jolo Bombing: Bid to Derail BOL Peace Deal?

        18 February, 2019

      • CO18143 | Basilan Island Suicide Attack: IS Tapping into ASG’s Strength?

        30 August, 2018

      • CO18077 | New Al-Fatihin: IS Continued Ideological Threat to Southeast Asia

        04 May, 2018

      • CO18065 | Jolo and Maguindanao: New IS Epicentres in Philippines?

        05 April, 2018

      • CO17032 | Crowdsourcing Local Attacks: ISIS Expands its Radical Reach

        20 February, 2017

      • CO15282 | ISIS in Horn of Africa: An Imminent Alliance with Al-Shabaab?

        30 December, 2015

      • CO15183 | Islamic State: Breeding a New Generation of Jihadists

        27 August, 2015

      Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses

      • Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 11 Issue 05

        16 May, 2019

      • Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 10, Issue 03

        06 March, 2018

      • Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 10, Issue 01

        01 January, 2018

      • Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 8, Issue 09

        29 September, 2016

      • Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 8, Issue 08

        31 August, 2016

      • Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 6, Issue 10

        01 November, 2014

      • Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 5, Issue 9

        02 September, 2013

      • Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 5, Issue 9

        01 September, 2013

      • Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 5, Issue 7

        01 July, 2013

      • Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 5, Issue 7

        01 July, 2013

      IDSS Paper

      • IP21025 | The Infiltration of Jemaah Islamiyah into Indonesian State and Society

        23 December, 2021

      • IP21022 | Eschatological Narratives, Taliban and the Dangers of Millenarian Thinking

        10 December, 2021

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    External Publications

    Journal Articles

    • “Contemporary Salafism in Singapore” (with Muhammad Haziq Bin Jani) in Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 41, 1, 2021. pp. 157-178

    Chapters in Edited Books

    • “IS – A Brief Introduction” in Muhammad Haniff Hassan and Rohan Gunaratna (Eds.), Countering Islamic State Ideology: Voices Of Singapore Religious Scholars. Singapore: PERGAS, 2021, pp. 1-11
    • “Yemen’s Ideological Front in Deradicalisation Approach” in R. Gunaratna and S. Hussin, ed., Terrorist Deradicalisation in Global Contexts: Success, Failure and Continuity. London: Routledge, 2019, pp.96-110
    • “The Los Angeles Model in Deradicalisation” in R. Gunaratna and S. Hussin, ed., Terrorist Deradicalisation in Global Contexts: Success, Failure and Continuity. London: Routledge, 2019, pp.197-208

    Op-Eds

    • “Saudi Arabia’s Moderate Islam: A Restrained Contribution?”, Eurasia Review, 26 May 2018

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