Posted in Qaeda, Raymond Ibrahim on Sep 10th, 2008 3 Comments »
From Raymond Ibrahim
In many ways, Michael Scheuer is the paradigmatic case of an otherwise knowledgeable and experienced Western adult who takes Al Qaeda’s word at face value. According to his book, Imperial Hubris, his credentials and thus authority to speak about Al Qaeda and its goals are impressive: “For the past seventeen years, my career [...]
Posted in Adam Garfinkle, Assaf Moghadam, Books, Daniel Byman, J. Scott Carpenter, Josef Joffe, Mark T. Clark, Martin Kramer, Michael Horowitz, Michael Reynolds, Michael Young, Philip Carl Salzman, Raymond Ibrahim, Robert Satloff, Steven A. Cook, Tamara Cofman Wittes, Walter Laqueur, Walter Reich 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.)
Posted in Bernard Haykel, Islamism, Mark T. Clark, Michael Horowitz, Military, Qaeda, Raymond Ibrahim, Terminology on May 29th, 2008 8 Comments »
From Raymond Ibrahim
At the recent inaugural conference for the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA), presenter LTC Joseph Myers made an interesting point that deserves further elaboration: that, though military studies have traditionally valued and absorbed the texts of classical war doctrine—such as Clausewitz’s On War, Sun Tzu’s The Art [...]
Posted in Announcements, Mark T. Clark, Philip Carl Salzman, Raymond Ibrahim on May 2nd, 2008 2 Comments »
From Mark T. Clark
I am happy to report that the inaugural conference for the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (AMESA) on April 25-26, 2008 went extremely well. The title of the conference was “Evolution of Islamic Politics, Philosophy and Culture in the Middle East and Africa: From Traditional Limits to [...]
Posted in Assaf Moghadam, Qaeda, Raymond Ibrahim, Terrorism 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 [...]
Posted in Adam Garfinkle, Israel, Raymond Ibrahim on Mar 10th, 2008 3 Comments »
From Raymond Ibrahim
During the eulogy of the eight slain students of the March 6 terrorist attack at Mercaz HaRav yeshiva school in West Jerusalem, highly-respected Rabbi Ya’akov Shapira made, for the average gentile, a rather elusive allusion regarding the attack: “The murderer did not want to kill these people in particular, but everyone living in [...]
Posted in Islamism, Qaeda, Raymond Ibrahim, Walter Laqueur on Feb 1st, 2008 1 Comment »
From Raymond Ibrahim
Will the recent killing in Pakistan of “senior” Al Qaeda leader, Abu Laith al-Libi, have any tangible effects on the “war on terror”? Considering the headline news coverage, one might assume so. In fact, whenever any major Al Qaeda operative or leader is slain, the media is abuzz with it, implying that we [...]
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