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Omar Mohammed’s Biography

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Omar is an East Africa Business Correspondent for Reuters, where he covers companies and economic news about the region based in Kenya's capital Nairobi.

Before that, he was a reporter for Bloomberg News in Tanzania, where he reported on the business, economic and financial news in East Africa's second largest economy. Prior to that he was East Africa reporter for Quartz. As part of a team at the Atlantic Media Company's-owned site, he helped launch Quartz Africa in June 2015.

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Is America headed for layoffs?

Is America headed for layoffs?

Employers added 150,000 jobs in October, much lower than the previous month, new data from the Bureau of Labo…

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Will mortgage rates come down in 2024? Updated housing market predictions

Will mortgage rates come down in 2024? Updated housing market predictions

The Federal Reserve kept rates at their current level and indicated that they were still worried about inflat…

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Americans are burning through their extra income

Americans are burning through their extra income

The U.S. economy is still growing, driven by robust consumer spending, in an environment of high prices and e…

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Kevin McCarthy being ousted raises fears of shutdown

Kevin McCarthy being ousted raises fears of shutdown

The uncertainty in Washington following House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's removal raises the specter of a loomin…

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Government shutdown throws more uncertainty into Americans' lives

Government shutdown throws more uncertainty into Americans' lives

A government shutdown may pinch the pocketbook of Americans and damage the U.S. place in the world.

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'The NBA has come to us': inside basketball's $1bn play for Africa

'The NBA has come to us': inside basketball's $1bn play for Africa

The Basketball Africa League, a joint project between the NBA and Fiba, hopes to tap into a market with a hug…

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Dr. Omar Mohammed

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By Omar Mohammed Verified
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Dr. Omar Mohammed, the historian known as "Mosul Eye," is Director of the Antisemitism Research Initiative and a Senior Research Fellow at the Program on Extremism at the George Washington University, and teaches at Sciences Po. A former UNESCO senior consultant, he holds a Ph.D. from EHESS in Paris, France.
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Frontline Watch: Examining the Convergence of Antisemitism, Extremism, and Security Threats

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By Mahmut Cengiz, Omar Mohammed Verified, Asher Stern
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Frontline Watch provides a weekly update on emerging terrorist activities and global threat trends, with Counterterrorism Managing Editor Dr. Mahmut Cengiz examining the developments shaping the security landscape both domestically and internationally, with research assistance from Sean Dilallo, Brian Cortes, Floyd Alex Cross, and Chris Dayton. This edition features an analytical article examining an emerging challenge in homeland security. In “Public Antisemitism Has Stopped Being Shocking.
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Public Antisemitism Has Stopped Being Shocking: That is a Homeland Security Problem

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By Omar Mohammed Verified, Asher Stern
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The normalization of public antisemitic intimidation in the United States and the United Kingdom has produced the upstream environment in which hate crime, terrorism, and hostile-state activity are now converging operationally. U.S. homeland security planners should treat that convergence as the consequence of the social environment, not as a separate threat picture.
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