by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Raymond Ibrahim was a former student of mine in Classics and Middle Eastern history, now living and working in Washington. He contacted me for some advice, as his former MA thesis advisor, months ago, saying that as part of his job as an archivist he had accidentally come across texts purportedly written years ago by bin Laden and … [Read more...]
Arts, Briefly; Al Qaeda Anthology
by Edward Wyatt New York Times Doubleday will publish a collection of the translated writings of Al Qaeda leaders next year and will donate profits from the book to charities that are aiding American victims of terrorism. The book, tentatively titled "The Al Qaeda Reader," will consist of writings by Ayman al-Zawahiri, Al Qaeda's second in command, plus material attributed to … [Read more...]
New York publisher faces fierce opposition to al-Qa’eda tome
The Telegraph When news of the deal first broke in the American publishing press last week, the company said that it had not decided how to use the expected profits from the book. After angry protests that it stood to cash in on the 9/11 attacks, however, Doubleday announced that all the proceeds from the book, which has the working title Al Qaeda Reader, would be given to … [Read more...]
Al Qaeda book battle
CNN NEW YORK (CNN) -- It's to be titled the "Al Qaeda Reader." Publisher Doubleday says it will include writings by Osama bin Laden and his second in command, Ayman al-Zawahri, from the 1990s. News of the book prompted at least one publisher to raise a red flag about profits. "How do you deal with something like this, that is the issue I suppose most people wonder about. … [Read more...]
It’s Osama on Osama: Book to tell Al Qaeda tale
by Paul D. Colford New York Daily News IT'S COMING TO A bookstore near you - the radical views of Osama Bin Laden and his second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri. New York publisher Doubleday said yesterday that next year it will release "The Al Qaeda Reader," a history of the terror network in its leaders' own words, but it insisted none will be paid for the writings. "We … [Read more...]