Radicalization

Description

In the wake of the Paris, Beirut, and San Bernardino terrorist attacks, fears over 'homegrown terrorism' have surfaced to a degree not seen since September 11, 2001. A sought-after commentator in France and a widely respected international scholar of radical Islam, Farhad Khosrokhavar has spent years studying the path towards radicalization, focusing particularly on the key role of prisons - based on interviews with dozens of Islamic radicals - as incubators of a particular brand of outrage that has yielded so many attacks over the past decade.

Farhad Khosrokhavar is the director of studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris. He is an expert on contemporary Iran and Islam in France and he lives in Paris. Jane Marie Todd is an award-winning translator of more than seventy books. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Praise for Radicalization : "A timely, systematic breakdown of the reasons for radicalization." Kirkus Reviews "A book that distinguishes itself from the most prominent studies conducted on this topic to date." Terrorism and Political Violence Journal Praise for Khosrokhavar's Suicide Bombers : "A fascinating study of the cult of martyrdom among the rootless young men of the modern Muslim diaspora in Western Europe prescient." The New York Review of Books