Al-Qaeda Today
By Matthew Levitt
Earlier this week I had the pleasure of sharing a Washington Institute podium with two acclaimed scholars, Assaf Moghadam and Farhad Khosrokhavar, for a discussion about al-Qaeda today and the changing face of the global jihadist threat. Dr. Moghadam is assistant professor and senior associate at the U.S. Military Academy's Combating Terrorism Center at West Point and the author of the new book The Globalization of Martyrdom. Dr. Khosrokhavar is a professor of sociology at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and is currently a visiting professor in Harvard University's Islamic Legal Studies Program. He is the author of the new book Inside Jihadism. My own comments were drawn from the volume I co-edited with Michael Jacobson, "Countering Transnational Threats."
The full audio of the event and a rapporteur's summary are available here.
