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Book Launch: Beyond Terror and Martyrdom

21/11/2008

Date: 8th December
Time: 7.30 pm

Gilles Kepel will be in debate with Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, chair of British Muslims
for Secular Democracy (BMSD)

In his new book Beyond Terror and Martyrdom, (Harvard University Press, 2008)
leading expert on political Islam Gilles Kepel warns that the world urgently needs
to move beyond the exhausted narratives of Bush’s war on terror and Al-Qaeda’s call
for violent action. He offers a blueprint for a new way for nations and communities
to live together in the Middle East and in Europe, too. Gilles Kepel holds degrees
in Arabic, English and philosophy, a Ph.D. in sociology and a Ph.D. in political
science. He is Professor and Chair of Middle East Studies at the Institute of
Political Studies in Paris and Director of the “Middle East” book series at the
Presses Universitaires de France. He is the author of Jihad (2002) and The War for
Muslim Minds (2004), both published by Harvard University Press.

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