Media

• Cook, Joana. “Weekend Programme.” Guest host, BBC World Service, 12 April 2025.
• “Axel Rudakubana trial,” BBC Radio 5, 21 January 2025.
• “New Orleans attack,” Deutche Welles (TV), 3 January 2025.
• “New Orleans attack,” BBC News (TV), 2 January 2025.
• “How will women’s rights be shaped under HTS rule in Syria?“, BBC News, 23 December 2024
• “Magdebourg attack,” France 24, 22 December 2024.
• “The Iraq Report: 10 years after the Islamic State’s ‘caliphate’“, The New Arab, 2 July 2024.
• “Age of violence? Eiffel Tower attack adds to security concerns in France,” The Debate, France 24, 5 December 2023.
• “The role of OSINT in understanding VEOs” Janes Intelligence, 19 September 2023.
• Book launch: “The Rule is for None but Allah: Islamist Approaches to Governance.” ICCT, 14 September 2023.
• “The GPT college classroom is almost here, but professors say AI isn’t the real threat” Business Insider, 23 August 2023.
• “What does Islamist Rule look like?” ABC Radio National, 7 June 2023.
• “Children and the Hasakah prison break,” Weekend Programme, BBC World Service, 30 January 2022.
• “Once an extremist, always an extremist?” Global Coalition Against Daesh, 21 September 2021.
• Cook, Joana. “9/11 20th anniversary: “We can really see how 9/11 still continue to impact everybody globally,” France 24, 17 September 2021.
• Cook, Joana, Devorah Margolin, Naureen C Fink, “Does Terrorism Have a Gender?” Global Coalition Against Daesh, 10 August 2021.
• Cook, Joana. “Swedish woman participated in dreaded IS brigade,” TV4 Sweden, 7 June 2021.
• Cook, Joana. “Weekend Programme.” Guest host, BBC World Service, 15 May 2021.
• Cook, Joana. “Ten years ago the US killed Osama bin Laden.” SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen. 2 May 2021.
• Cook, Joana. “What next for the British women who joined ISIS?” BBC Newsnight, February 2019
• Louisa Loveluck, Souad Mekhennet, Loveday Morris, Alice Martins, “Castaway from the Islamic State,” The Washington Post, 23 December 2019.
• Peltier, Elian “U.K. Takes Back Children From Former ISIS Territory.” New York Times, 22 November 2019.
• “NATO Military Structure.” King’s College London. November 2019.
• “NATO: Partnership Initiative and Operations.” King’s College London. November 2019.
• “Joana Cook speaks about Islamic State resurgence.” BBC World Service, 8 August 2019.
• O’Grady, Siobhan. “The Sri Lankan attackers were ‘well-educated.’ Suicide bombers tend to be, experts say.” The Washington Post, 24 April 2019.
• “Joana Cook discusses the role of women in the battle against so-called Islamic State.” BBC Start of the Week, 19 March 2019.
• John, Tara. “What should Europe do with its captured ISIS followers?” CNN, 20 February 2019.
• CNN News (Hala Goranai Tonight) February 2019.
• “What next for the women of ISIS?” BBC Newsnight, 18 February 2018.
• Khomami, Nadia. “Number of women and children who joined Isis ‘significantly underestimated‘” The Guardian. 23 July 2018.
• Khomami, Nadia. “How London teenager plotted attacks with all-female terror cell.” The Guardian.” 4 June 2018.
• Cook, Joana. “Yemen in flux.” The National. 4 December 2017.
• BBC News (TV). “Man and wife who planned terror attack in city are found guilty.” 26 October 2017.
• Ackerman, Xanthe and Christina Asquith. TIME. “Women’ haven’t really won in Saudi Arabia – Yet.” December 12, 2015.
• Sky News (TV). “Britain and drones.” September 9, 2015.
• Cook, Joana. Telegraph. “Britain targeting its own citizens in Isil drone strike sets dangerous precedent.” September 8, 2015.  
• VOA. “Britain Struggles to Stem Flow of Radicalized Youth to Islamic State.” June 23, 2015.
• The Telegraph. “How did these terror attacks during the last 20 years change the world?” July 23, 2015.
• BBC World News (TV). “ISIL using children on the battlefield.” June 1, 2015.
• Hinnant, Lori (AP). “No exit: For female jihadis, Syria is a one-way journey.” The Washington Post. May 28, 2015.
• Kolenda Strategic Leadership. “Women’s Diverse Roles in Perpetrating and Countering Violent Extremism. April 28, 2015.
• Bell, Stewart. “Why Western girls move to Middle East to marry ISIL fighters – and what life’s really like when they get there.” The National Post (Canada). April 15, 2015.
• Bell, Stewart. “How RCMP officers tracked three Canadian girls in Egypt before they could join ISIL in Syria.” The National Post (Canada). April 13, 2015.
• “3 U.K. schoolgirls suspected of joining ISIS in Syria.” CBC News. February 21, 2015