Thomas Hegghammer al-Qaida Interview

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al-Qaida Interview Radio Free Mississippi Date: 10/22/2009

Thomas Hegghammer is an academic specializing in the study of violent Islamism. He is currently a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, an associate at Harvard Kennedy School and a senior research fellow at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) in Oslo. He holds a PhD in political science from Sciences-Po in Paris and an MA and MPhil in Middle Eastern Studies from Oxford University. A fluent Arabic speaker, Dr. Hegghammer has conducted extensive field research in the Middle East. Dr. Hegghammer's research focuses on jihadi ideology, jihadism on the Arabian Peninsula and the history of the foreign fighter phenomenon. He is the author of the forthcoming book Jihad in Saudi Arabia (Cambridge University Press) and the co-author of al-Qaida in its own words (Harvard University Press, 2008). He is currently working on a book about the jihadi ideologue Abdallah Azzam and Arab involvement in the 1980s war in Afghanistan. Thomas Hegghammer also edits Jihadica, a blog devoted to the analysis of jihadi websites.

Even though everyone trying to understand jihadism should pay close attention to Dr. Hegghammer, Karin Friedeman and I each have our own differences with him:

• collision: jewish-zionist, arab-islamic transnational politics
• taming obama by pruning advisers
• [wvns] myths & facts about al-qaeda.
  

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