America ConfrontsRadical Islam 1967-1989

• Tinder: Islam & Arab Nationalism 1967-75

• Spark: The Shia Revolts in Lebanon & Iran

• Backfire: Sunni Jihad in Cairo, Kabul, & Beyond

When Social Science Met Islam

Egypt’s Dilemma:Arab Nationalism or Radical

Islam?

With Cuba’s Che Guevara in 1964

Sayyid Qutb in Jail

Gamal Abdel Nasser

With the Muslim Brothers 1954

Finding the Right Kind of Muslim

King Saud with Ike & Nixon

Crown Prince Faisal with JFK The Shah with LBJ

Turning Point: The Six Day War

Israelis at Al Aqsa Mosque

Palestinians Flee to Jordan

Shia Islam:Religion of the Dispossessed

The Vanished Imam& the Shia Jihad

• Slumdog Fundamentalist

• The Theology of Liberation

• The Return of the Twelfth Imam

Imam Musa al-Sadr

Radical Islam in Lebanon

Imad Mugniyah

Hezbollah’s Flag

Sheik Mohammed Fadlallah

Iran: Reform & Religion

Mohammed Mossadeq Ali Shariati

Ali Amini Ruhollah Khomeini

Islam in Iran after Khomeini

Mohammed Khatemi

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Sunni Islam:Tricontinental Reach

Egypt:Qutb’s Ghost & the Sunni

Jihad

Sadat’s Assassins Oct. 1981 The Good Arab: Anwar Sadat

Islamists in Jail Sept. 1981

Sunni Jihad in Afghanistan

Mohammed Dauod Khan Leonid Brezhnev & Nur Mohammed Taraki

Hafizullah Amin Meet the Mujahadeen

Mullah Omar

Radical Sunnismin the Horn of Africa

Mohammed Farah AideedSomalia: A Model Failed State

Radical Sunnism in Algeria

Madani Mezrag Islamic Salvation Front

The Mahdi’s Ghost:Radical Sunnism in Sudan

Where Green Meets Black Hassan al-Turabi & Osama Bin Laden

Jafaar Nimieri

The Rise of Al Qaeda

• Blowback from Afghanistan

• Blowback from the First Gulf War

• The 1990s: Terror, Fatwa, & Jihad Ayman al-Zawahiri & Osama bin

Laden

Bin Laden’s Protégés

Iraq: Abu Musab Zarqawi

Yemen: Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula

Syria: The Al Nusra Front

Mali: Al Qaeda in the Islamic Mahgreb