Kathryn Bigelow is developing a dramatic series about jihadi recruitment for HBO alongside the rapper and poet K’Naan Warsame. Ms. Bigelow, who won an Oscar for directing “The Hurt Locker,” will executive produce the series, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The series will be titled “The Recruiters,” and is set in Minnesota. Mr. Warsame, a Somali-Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter and poet, will write and direct it. In two opinion pieces for The New York Times, Mr. Warsame wrote about spreading awareness about the violence and poverty in his homeland, Somalia, as well as about the difficulties of adjusting to fame.

This will be Mr. Warsame’s first television project, and he recently posted a casting call for the series’ lead role of a “young Somali man” on Twitter.