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Saudi Arabia’s foremost contemporary artist explores the story of his homeland since 1979—its politics, theocracy, petroculture, technologies, urban and rural communities, and its future—in a visual history encompassing his artwork and autobiography
Prognosis/Saudi Arabia explores Ahmed Mater’s life...
The virulent new brand of Islamic extremism threatening the West
In November 2015, ISIS terrorists massacred scores of people in Paris with coordinated attacks on the Bataclan concert hall, caf's and restaurants, and the national sports stadium. On Bastille Day in 2016, an ISIS sympathizer drove a...
Read More about Terror in France: The Rise of Jihad in the West (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics #64)The Middle East is one of the world's most volatile regions. In recent years, from the optimism and then crushing disappointment of the Arab uprisings through the rise and fall of the Islamic State, it has presented key international security challenges. With the resilient jihadi terror threat...
Read More about Away from Chaos: The Middle East and the Challenge to the WestGilles Kepel takes us into the world of the students, professionals, workers, and unemployed who are caught up in the Islamic movements of Egypt. Events that have riveted world attention—the first World Trade Center bombing, assassinations in Beirut, the attempt on the life of the Pope, the...
Read More about Muslim Extremism in Egypt: The Prophet and PharaohDespite the frequent appearances of Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri on television screens worldwide, Al Qaeda remains an elusive entity. As the world has grown increasingly familiar with the spectacle of Islamist terrorism, Al Qaeda's essential worldview has remained bewilderingly opaque. To...
Read More about Al Qaeda in Its Own WordsThe virulent new brand of Islamic extremism threatening the West
In November 2015, ISIS terrorists massacred scores of people in Paris with coordinated attacks on the Bataclan concert hall, caf's and restaurants, and the national sports stadium. On Bastille Day in 2016, an ISIS sympathizer drove a...
Read More about Terror in France: The Rise of Jihad in the West (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics #64)This new book is an outstanding account of the ways in which Islam is asserting its identity in the West today.
Read More about Allah in the West: Islamic Movements in America and EuropeSince 2001, two dominant worldviews have clashed in the global arena: a neoconservative nightmare of an insidious Islamic terrorist threat to civilized life, and a jihadist myth of martyrdom through the slaughter of infidels. Across the airwaves and on the ground, an ill-defined and uncontrollable...
Read More about Beyond Terror and Martyrdom: The Future of the Middle EastThe events of September 11, 2001, forever changed the world as we knew it. In their wake, the quest for international order has prompted a reshuffling of global aims and priorities. In a fresh approach, Gilles Kepel focuses on the Middle East as a nexus of international disorder and decodes the...
Read More about The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the WestThe late twentieth century has witnessed the emergence of an unexpected and extraordinary phenomenon: Islamist political movements. Beginning in the early 1970s, militants revolted against the regimes in power throughout the Muslim world and exacerbated political conflicts everywhere. Their jihad...
Read More about Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam