The Project for the Research of Islamist Movements - PRISM - was founded by Reuven Paz inn 2002, in order to combine academic and field research of new developments of radical Islam and Islamist movements.

The project is part of the GLORIA Center in the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya.

The project is dealing with developments of radical Islamic and Islamist movements in the social, cultural, ideological, and political fields; Finance of radical Islamist groups; Sponsoring of Islamic states to Islamist radicalism and terrorism; Islamic communities in the West; The "Culture of Global Jihad" and its attitude toward the Western civilization, Israel, and the Jews; Islamist networks; and support for radical Islam through the virtual global Jihad in the Internet. The focus of its research is on primary sources in Arabic, and the project wishes to fill some vacuum in the use of Arabic sources for the Islamist phenomenon.

PRISM wishes to become a home and platform for scholars in these fields, to conduct research, publish their products, and organize conferences, seminars, and workshops on the above topics.

Articles by Reuven Paz:

Global Jihad and WMD: Between Martyrdom and Mass Destruction -- published by The Hudson Institute in Current Trends in Islamic Ideology, Vol. 2 (September 2005)

PRISM Occasional Papers Vol. 3 No. 7 (6 October 2005) -- Al-Qaeda's Search for New Fronts: Instructions for Jihadi Activity in Egypt and Sinai

PRISM Occasional Papers Vol. 3 No. 8 (1 November 2005) -- Rakan ben Williams: The New Generation of Jihadi Terrorists in Europe

Articles by Moshe Terdman:

PRISM Occasional Papers Vol. 3 No. 2 (22 June 2005) -- The Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG)

Articles by Deborah Touboul

PRISM Occasional Papers Vol. 3 No. 6 (27 September 2005) -- Francophone Internet Forums Shed Light on Concerns and Issues of Islamists in Europe

Articles by other scholars:

Yoram Schweitzer and Sari Goldstein Ferber -- Al-Qaeda and the Internationalization of Sucide Terrorism, The Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Memorandum No. 78, November 2005

B. Raman -- From Internet to Islamnet: Net-Centric Counter-Terrorism -- SAAG, Paper No. 1584, 22 October 2005

Documents In Arabic:

Al-Battar Book no. 1 -- Abd al-Aziz al-Muqrin -- Dawrat al-Tanfidh wa-Harb al-`Isabat (Operational Course and Guerrilla Warfare) -- posted July 2005 (articles from until September 2004)

Majallat Minbar Surya al-Islami (Syrian Islamic Platform) -- No. 2 (23 September 2005)

Al-Jamaah -- Magazine of the Algerian GSDC -- Issue no. 5 (October 2005)

Abu Hamza al-Iraqi -- Limaza Nuqatil? wa-Nuqatil Man? (Why do we fight? and Against Whom?) -- June 2005 by Al-Qaeda Shar`i Council in Iraq

Dhurwat al-Sinam (Peak of the Hump) --Magazine of Al-Qaeda in Iraq -- Issue No. 3 (13 July 2005)

Abu Bakr Naji -- Idarat al-Tawahhush (The Management of Barbarism) -- February 2005

Hadhihi `Aqidatuna (This is our Belief) -- Declaration by Al-Qaeda in Iraq -- March 2005

Sawt al-Jihad -- Issue No. 29 (April 2005) -- Published after a long break.

Sawt al-Qoqaz -- New Magazine of the Arab Mujahidin in Chechnya (27 April 2005)

Majallat Al-Ansar - Magazine of Ansar al-Sunnah Army in Iraq -- No. 11 (23 July 2005)

Sada al-Tahrir al-Maghrebi -- Issue No. 1 of the New Magazine of the Outlawed Islamic Liberation Party (Hizb al-Tahrir) in Morocco -- August 2005

TALAE` KHORASAN (Pioneers of Khorasan) -- Issue no. 3 (October 2005) -- Magazine of the Arab Volunteers in Afghanistan Published by Al-Sahab Publications of Al-Qaeda

JAME` -- Organ of the Islamic Front of the Iraqi Resistance -- No. 1 -- September 2005

RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS ON ISLAMIST IDEOLOGY

Current Trends in Islamist Ideology -- The Hudson Institute -- Vol. I (2005) -- Edited by Hillel Fradkin, Husain Haqqani, and Eric Brown

Current Trends in Islamist Ideology -- The Hudson Institute -- Vol. 2 (September 2005) -- Edited by Hillel Fradkin, Husain Haqqani, and Eric Brown

International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) -- www.ict.org.il

Prof. Martin Kramer -- www.martinkramer.org

Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) -- www.meria.idc.ac.il

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) -- www.memri.org