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The World Policy Institute in collaboration with the Committee on Historical Studies and the South Asia Forum at The New School invite you to a book launch and discussion with Yaroslav Trofimov, Wall Street Journal correspondent and author of The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam’s Holiest Shrine and the Birth of al-Qaeda. Broadcast on C-Span BookTV Oct 6 at 3 pm ET and 1 am ET Oct 7For future airings click HERE The discussion will be moderated by Faisal Devji, Associate Professor of History, The New School.
WHEN:
Monday, October 1 WHERE:
Eugene
Lang College
RSVP: This event is free and open to the public, but space is limited so RSVPs are a must. To register, e-mail SiegeofMeccaRSVP@yahoo.com or call the World Policy Institute’s new Events line at (212) 481-5005, Option 2.
Advance praise
for The Siege of Mecca, which The Washington
Post has called one of the "season’s most anticipated books”: “Yaroslav Trofimov has written a spellbinding thriller. Packed with vivid, previously undisclosed details, it illuminates a little-known hostage crisis in the closed-off heart of the Muslim world that helped give rise to Al Qaeda. Once I started reading, I couldn't put the book down.” —Rajiv Chandrasekaran, author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
“As Yaroslav
Trofimov amply and skillfully demonstrates, the most radioactive
particle in the world today is not
Copies of The
Siege of
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