Mina Al-Lami

@Minalami · London · joined 18 Jun 2009

Chief jihadist media specialist at @BBC/ BBC Monitoring (https://t.co/YOO1pNdHh2)

21 784Followers

943Following

4 891Posts total

116.6KViews on collected posts

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Mina Al-Lami@Minalami24 Sep

@caleb_weiss7 True, and very much consistent with al-Qaeda’s response to the Arab uprisings in 2011, which effectively left the group looking increasingly irrelevant. That was the context in which the Ansar al-Sharia name/franchise emerged, starting in Yemen - an attempt to 440 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Mina Al-Lami@Minalami24 Sep

Moreover, not publicly highlighting the AQ brand or link is itself a longtime strategy of AQ. See the myriad “Ansar al-Sharia” groups in the Middle East and Africa during the early 2010s as an example. Or Shabaab prior to 2012, etc. 526 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Mina Al-Lami@Minalami18 Sep

1/ In its latest al-Naba editorial, IS once again compares itself to the prophets: both in having a duty to spread "the true" message of Islam and in enduring the lonely, harsh path that supposedly follows. The message: hardship is not evidence of failure, but a test. 5.7K views · 37 likes · 17 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Mina Al-Lami@Minalami16 Sep

@Minalami Last official release was in Oct 2020 titled: غريب ضمني شعث البوادي by the same Munshid. 5.1K views · 16 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Mina Al-Lami@Minalami16 Sep

The latest release also followed an unusual lull in IS media activity, particularly attack claims. The group issued no attack claims between 9 and 15 September, prompting some supporters to publicly note the silence. The combination of the media lull and the rarity of an Ajnad 7.2K views · 26 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Mina Al-Lami@Minalami16 Sep

IS supporters widely celebrated and shared the nashid on social media, with a few speculating, without elaborating, that its release may be linked to reports that IS spokesman Abu Hudhayfah al-Ansari was killed in Yemen on 1 September. 8.9K views · 31 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Mina Al-Lami@Minalami16 Sep

IS/ISIS has released its first official nashid (jihadist chant) in several years. Titled "Our Army Is Coming with Revenge", it was produced by Ajnad, IS's dedicated nashid-production outlet and one of its earliest official media arms, established in 2013. The nashid is dominated 65.9K views · 257 likes · 56 reposts · 23 replies Open on X →

Mina Al-Lami@Minalami19 Dec 2025

@Minalami Thanks for that. 256 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Mina Al-Lami@Minalami19 Dec 2025

@Andrew_Zammit Hope this latest updated chart helps (these charts/data are based on IS's own claims, but collected and analysed by BBC Monitoring) https://t.co/zv1A353UB4

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Mina Al-Lami@Minalami19 Dec 2025

@Minalami Great points. Out of interest, will you be doing an updated version of these charts for the end of 2025? (I’m interested in the extent to which they have recovered from their 2023 low point) https://t.co/4qtImNEWV0

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7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views5 660this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %25.98%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.46%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	5 660	924	6.13×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	25.98%	3.62%	7.18×
Engagement rate	0.46%	1.52%	0.30×

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How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

60219 Dec

22K

256

65.9K16 Sep

8.9K

7.2K

5.1K

5.7K18 Sep

52624 Sep

440

Last 10 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.50%19 Dec

0.17%

0.39%

0.52%16 Sep

0.39%

0.37%

0.34%

1.02%18 Sep

0.57%24 Sep

0.45%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes47.9%399 in total

Reposts9.8%82 in total

Replies4.0%33 in total

Quotes1.8%15 in total

Bookmarks36.5%304 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

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