dr Magdalena El Ghamari

Doctor of social sciences in defence studies, specialising in operations and operational techniques. At WSKZ she is affiliated with the Institute of Criminology and Internal Security, where she heads the Centre for Cultural Security Research. Founder and president of the El Karama Foundation.

Expert with the European Commission’s EU Knowledge Hub on Prevention of Radicalisation and with the Academic Centre for Strategic Analysis at the War Studies University, and a mentor in the EU Knowledge Hub Mentoring Programme and the Executive Voices Hub (Impactful Women Voices). She has trained personnel of KFOR, EULEX Kosovo, FRONTEX, CEPOL and UNESCO, as well as the Polish Prison Service, Border Guard, Police, Territorial Defence Force, Polish military contingents and NATO/CIMIC, for operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo and Libya.

Her work covers terrorism and radicalisation in the MENA region and the Balkans, including foreign terrorist fighters and propaganda, Islamist extremism, the cultural and religious context of the Arab world, and the security of operations in high-risk areas. She works with universities and think tanks in the Global South and is a member of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA).