by Marisa UrgoShaalan | Jun 9, 2013 | Monitor
I traveled to Turkey in March, as part of a class in public diplomacy, sponsored by George Mason University's Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution. During the trip, the class met with Syrians who were engaged in the early, non-violence...
by Marisa UrgoShaalan | Jul 30, 2012 | Monitor
In May 2009, Abu Abdullah Ahmed, leader of al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb’s (AQIM) then newly-established "political committee" ("Comité Médiatique" in the French release), sat down for an interview with AQIM’s media wing, al-Andalus Media. The...
by Marisa UrgoShaalan | Jul 6, 2012 | Monitor
I tweeted this last week, but I forgot to post it to the blog. Consider it a curio from a different time. It's an English-language periodical, published in 1990 through a Cairo-based Muslim Brotherhood publishing house – Ummah Press Service. The Library...
by Marisa UrgoShaalan | May 27, 2012 | Monitor
Zawahiri Describes the Afghan Camp ComplexIn Chapter 4 Section 4 of the 2d edition of his spiritual autobiography, Knights Under the Banner of the Prophet, Ayman al-Zawahiri describes the training camp complex that had developed throughout Afghanistan during the chaos...
by Marisa UrgoShaalan | May 27, 2012 | Monitor
Zawahiri’s Personal Theology of Risk In Section 2 of the Afghanistan chapters of his autobiography, Knights Under the Banner of the Prophet (2d ed), Ayman al-Zawahiri tells of the origins of the al-Qaeda’s efforts to unify the various Afghanistan-based “mujahideen”...
