Author: Gilles Kepel
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: new, preface, pharaoh, prophet, extremism, egypt, muslim
Number of Pages: 290
Published: 2003-04-07
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0520239342
ISBN-13: 9780520239340

Gilles Kepel takes us into the world of the students, professionals, workers, and unemployed who are caught up in the Islamic movements of Egypt. Events that have riveted world attention--the first World Trade Center bombing, assassinations in Beirut, the attempt on the life of the Pope, the assassination of Sadat, and, in a new preface, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001--are illuminated by this penetrating study.

Author: Gilles Kepel
Publisher: TAURIS I B
Keywords: jihad
Number of Pages: 472
Published: 2006-02-24
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1845112571
ISBN-13: 9781845112578

Author: Professor Gilles Kepel
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: east, middle, future, martyrdom, terror
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2008-11-20
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0674031385
ISBN-13: 9780674031388

Since 2001, two dominant worldviews have clashed in the global arena: a neoconservative nightmare of an insidious Islamic terrorist threat to civilized life, and a jihadist myth of martyrdom through the slaughter of infidels. Across the airwaves and on the ground, an ill-defined and uncontrollable war has raged between these two opposing scenarios. Deadly images and threats—from the televised beheading of Western hostages to graphic pictures of torture at Abu Ghraib, from the destruction wrought by suicide bombers in London and Madrid to civilian deaths at the hands of American occupation

Authors:Professor Gilles Kepel,  Pascale Ghazaleh,
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Pre
Keywords: west, islam, minds, muslim, war
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2006-04-30
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 067401992X
ISBN-13: 9780674019928

The events of September 11, 2001, forever changed the world as we knew it. In their wake, the quest for international order has prompted a reshuffling of global aims and priorities. In a fresh approach, Gilles Kepel focuses on the Middle East as a nexus of international disorder and decodes the complex language of war, propaganda, and terrorism that holds the region in its thrall. The breakdown of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process in 2000 was the first turn in a downward spiral of violence and retribution. Meanwhile, a neo-conservative revolution in Washington unsettled U.S. Mideast poli

Authors:Professor Gilles Kepel, Jean-Pierre Milelli, Pasca
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Pre
Keywords: words, own, qaeda
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2008-04-30
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 067402804X
ISBN-13: 9780674028043

Despite the frequent appearances of Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri on television screens worldwide, Al Qaeda remains an elusive entity. As the world has grown increasingly familiar with the spectacle of Islamist terrorism, Al Qaeda’s essential worldview has remained bewilderingly opaque. To reveal its inner workings, Gilles Kepel and his collaborators, all scholars of Arabic and Islam, have collected and brilliantly annotated key texts of the major figures from whom the movement has drawn its beliefs and direction. The resulting volume offers an unprecedented glimpse into the ass

Authors:De Rodrigue Blouin, Gilles Ferland, Gilles Laflamme,
Publisher: Pr De L’universite Laval
Keywords: relations, industrielles, les, des, french, congres, droits, chartes
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 1989-12
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 276377170X
ISBN-13: 9782763771700

Authors:Gilles Lambert, Gilles Neret,
Publisher: Taschen
Keywords: series, art, basic, taschen, caravaggio
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2000-08-01
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 382286305X
ISBN-13: 9783822863053

Notorious bad boy of Italian Baroque painting, Caravaggio (1571-1610) is finally getting the recognition he deserves. Though his name may be familiar to all of us, his work has been habitually detested and forced into obscurity. Not only was his theatrical realism unfashionable in his time, but his sacrilegious subject matter and use of lower class models were violently scorned. Michelangelo Mirisi de Caravaggio lived a life riddled with crime and scandal, producing a body of work that wouldn’t be appreciated until centuries after his mysterious death. Though his body was never found, he