Congratulations to Aisha Ahmad recipient of the Mershon Center Furniss Book Award!

Aisha Ahmad

Congratulations to Aisha Ahmad who has won the Mershon Center Furniss Book Award for 2017 for her book Jihad & Co. The Edgar S. Furniss Book Award commemorates the founding director of the Mershon Center at Ohio University and is given annually to an author whose first book makes an exceptional contribution to the study of national and international security. The members of the award committee cited the book's "outstanding field research, and appreciated the surprising relationships that it brings to light regarding jihadist groups. ”