We asked Peter Bergen, one of the few Western journalists ever to meet Osama bin Laden, and Warren Bass, a former 9/11 Commission staffer who is now Book World's nonfiction editor, to pick the best of the recent flood of boo... [Full Review Text.]
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Experts' Picks by Peter Bergen and Warren Bass (View on The Washington Post)
Sunday, July 16, 2006 - The Washington Post
Behind Enemy Lines by Raffi Khatchadourian (View on The Nation)
Thursday, April 27, 2006 - The Nation
In the days following Adolf Hitler's suicide in 1945, amid the rubble of Allied aerial bombardment, the Red Army's westward advance and Nazi surrender, a company of American infantrymen made their way up Munich's Prinzregen... [Full Review Text.]
Analyst says bin Laden 'desperate' by Adla Massoud (View on AlJazeera.net)
Monday, April 24, 2006 - AlJazeera.net
In The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global, his latest book on al-Qaeda, Middle East analyst Fawaz Gerges says that by the mid-1990s, the jihadi movement was nearly a spent force, having been ruthlessly repressed by "the near enemy" ... [Full Review Text.]
Any Target Will Do by Erik Schecter (View on The Jerusalem Post)
Saturday, April 8, 2006 - The Jerusalem Post
When the Egyptian government sent Muslim Brotherhood ideologue Sayyid Qutb to the gallows in 1966, his execution inspired a whole new generation of extremists committed to jihad. But these religious revolutionaries trained their s... [Full Review Text.]
A Treatment for Radical Ignorance About Islamic Radicalism by Juan R.I. Cole (View on Chronicle of Higher Education)
Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - Chronicle of Higher Education
Just as a commitment to containment of the Soviet Union served as a framework for U.S. foreign policy during the cold war, so the "war on terror" animates the foreign policy of the Bush administration. This struggle, in George W.... [Full Review Text.]
The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global by Shakesha Coleman (View on The Empire Page)
Friday, January 20, 2006 - The Empire Page
Al-Qaeda - leading transnationalist jihadist organization led by Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri
Ayman al-Zawahiri - Osama bin Laden's deputy and Al Qaeda's leading theoretician and ideologue
Jihad - armed struggle
Fawa... [Full Review Text.]
The War for Muslim Minds by Bruce Hoffman (View on The Washington Post)
Sunday, December 18, 2005 - The Washington Post
"If you know the enemy and know yourself," the Chinese strategist Sun Tzu advised some 2,500 years ago, "you need not fear the results of a hundred battles." The war on terrorism has now lasted longer than America's involvement in... [Full Review Text.]
The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global by L. Carl Brown (View on Foreign Affairs)
Tuesday, November 1, 2005 - Foreign Affairs
Radical jihad has not been global for long. Even the "Afghan Arabs" who fought the Soviets in the 1980s generally saw themselves as training to confront enemy regimes back home. It was not until the mid-1990s that Osama bin Laden ... [Full Review Text.]
The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global by Marcia L. Sprules (View on The Library Journal)
Tuesday, November 1, 2005 - The Library Journal
Gerges (Middle Eastern studies, Sarah Lawrence Coll.; America and Political Islam) is well known for his expert media commentary on the Middle East. This book differs from many others on the topics of Islam and jihad in its assert... [Full Review Text.]
Review: The Far Enemy by Fawaz Gerges by Pete Blackwell (View on Blogcritics.org)
Tuesday, October 18, 2005 - Blogcritics.org
It would be impossible to be taken seriously as a reporter or expert on Russia, France, Germany, Latin America, or perhaps even China or Japan without knowing the requisite languages but for "Islam" no linguistic knowledge seems... [Full Review Text.]