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Summer reading 2008

Posted in Michael Reynolds, Robert Satloff, Michael Horowitz, Michael Young, Daniel Byman, Bernard Lewis, Steven A. Cook, Philip Carl Salzman, Assaf Moghadam, Walter Reich, Walter Laqueur, Raymond Ibrahim, Martin Kramer, Mark T. Clark, Adam Garfinkle, Josef Joffe, Tamara Cofman Wittes, J. Scott Carpenter, Books on Jul 21st, 2008 2 Comments »

With August fast approaching, MESH has asked its members to recommend a book for summer reading. (For more information on a book, or to place an order with Amazon through the MESH bookstore, click on the book title or cover.)
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Daniel Byman :: Yaroslav Trofimov’s The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam’s […]

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Jihadi studies as trivia

Posted in Assaf Moghadam, Terrorism, Qaeda, Raymond Ibrahim on Apr 11th, 2008 2 Comments »

From Raymond Ibrahim
A new article by Thomas Hegghammer in the Times Literary Supplement, entitled “Jihadi studies: the obstacles to understanding radical Islam and the opportunities to know it better,” lives up to its title—not so much by delineating what these obstacles are, but rather by being representative of them. Regrettably, the author evokes the same […]

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Defining and confronting the Salafi Jihad

Posted in Assaf Moghadam, Michael Horowitz, Adam Garfinkle, Terminology, Terrorism, Qaeda on Feb 11th, 2008 2 Comments »

From Assaf Moghadam
In recent years, a growing number of analysts and policymakers, have referred to the doctrines guiding Al Qaeda and its associates as an ideology, and appear to have influenced the Bush administration into adopting the term as well. President Bush, for example, has characterized the 9/11 suicide hijackers as men who “kill in […]

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