Reviews of and Commentary on Journey of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy
Beyond Our Borders: The foes and woes of the lone superpower… and a Dutch Muslim woman. by Stéphanie Giry (View on The Washington Post web site)
Sunday, July 16, 2006 - The Washington Post
My, Do They Hate Us
Is the last superpower getting neurotic? As America struggles to navigate the post-9/11 world, the same questions keep recurring: Is America hated because of its power, its principles, its ... Read full review
Sunday, June 25, 2006 - Oregon Register Guard
He returned with a levelheaded book that is a valuable aid to understanding Islamic militancy. He tells real stories of real people, a method that rarely fails to shatter stereotypes. As Gerges writes, the notion of the ''Arab st...
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Friday, June 23, 2006 - The Globe and Mail
A Season in Mecca:Narrative of a Pilgrimage by Abdellah Hammoudi
Hill & Wang, 293 pages, $35
Journey of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy by Fawaz A. Gerges
Harcourt, 312 pages, $32.95
Islamic Imperialism: A Hist...
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Meet the Jihadists: Islamic Militants Tell Their Side of Story by Farah Nayeri (View on Bloomberg News web site)
Monday, June 19, 2006 - Bloomberg News
On Oct. 6, 1981, Anwar Sadat stood in a uniform covered with medals reviewing troops in a military parade. Suddenly, four gunmen leaped from a truck in the procession and raked the Egyptian president with bullets.
Sadat's assas...
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Review of Journey of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy by Mike Kanin
Friday, June 2, 2006 - Washington City Paper
Simply put, Fawaz Gerges is asking for trouble. For his latest book, Journey of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy, the much-published Sarah Lawrence professor and sometime television commentator interviewed “scores of…mainst...
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Tuesday, May 30, 2006 - The Village Voice
If the title of this discussion seems hyperbolic, it shouldn't. Many of the shortcomings of the war on terrorism can be viewed as stemming from the failure to understand the motives and belief systems of jihadist Muslims. Compound...
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Monday, May 8, 2006 - TPM Cafe Book Club
Welcome to the TPMCafe Book Club! This is where we regularly invite authors to come and discuss their most recent works with readers and invited commentators. Past Book Club authors include Thomas Frank, Anthony Shadid, Larry Diam...
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Review of Journey of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy by Ray Olson (View on Booklist web site)
Saturday, April 15, 2006 - Booklist
In America before 9/11, understanding violent Islamic radicalism was a prime concern mostly of Middle Eastern-studies academics. For that we can be grateful, at least when those academics write as unstuffily and accessibly as Gerg...
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Journey of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy by Kirkus Reviews (View on Kirkus Reviews web site)
Wednesday, March 15, 2006 - Kirkus Reviews
What's Osama so upset about? Well, there's the Great Satan business, of course. But, reveals political commentator and historian Gerges, there's at least one other compelling reason.
The big news in this newsworthy book is just...
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Journey of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy by Nader Entessar, Spring Hill Coll., Mobile, AL (View on Library Journal web site)
Wednesday, March 1, 2006 - Library Journal
In this fascinating and highly informative account of the development of militant Islamist praxis and ideology in the contemporary Middle East, Gerges (Middle Eastern studies, Sarah Lawrence Coll.; The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went G...
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Monday, February 20, 2006 - Publishers Weekly
In September 2005, Gerges, an academic turned news commentator, published a rare and thoughtful piece of scholarship, The Far Enemy , that sought to map the different views within militant Islam's explosive underworld. Gerges ar...
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