Dr Tristan Dunning is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at the American University of Afghanistan and an honorary research fellow at the University of Queensland. He is the author of Hamas, Jihad and Popular Legitimacy: Reinterpreting Resistance in Palestine (2016) and the editor of Palestine: Past and Present (2019). Tristan has published in the peer-reviewed academic journals Critical Terrorism Studies, Terrorism and Political Violence, and Small Wars and Insurgencies, as well as numerous media outlets. His research examines armed non-state actors and governance in Middle East.