Chris Heffelfinger
American writer
Chris Heffelfinger (born 1979) is a researcher and writer based in Washington, D.C.. He is the editor of Unmasking Terror: A Global Review of Terrorist Activities. This is a two-volume work published by the Jamestown Foundation [1]. He is also the author of Radical Islam in America: Salafism's Journey from Arabia to the West. He specializes in contemporary and classical Islamic thought.
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