“Polls of Gazans from 2007 to 2023 tell a story,” French writes. “They help make clear that Gazan support for armed resistance grew alongside increasing frustration, anger and a sense of hopelessness with any political solution to their suffering.”
Nathan French
Nathan S. French is an associate professor in Comparative Religion at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He is also an affiliate in International Studies in the Department of Global and Intercultural Studies and an affiliate with the LIFE Research Lab in the John W. Altman Institute for Entrepreneurship's Center for Social Entrepreneurship. French completed his PhD in Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2013. His research background is in Islamic law, Islamic legal theory, Islamic theology and contemporary Middle East history. Within these, French's research explores how contemporary Jihadi-Salafi movements, such as al-Qa'ida and ISIS, appropriate and re-interpret Islamic law and theology for their sociopolitical projects.