Gilles Kepel

An argument from the left that radical Islamic extremists are striving to divide French society.

Gilles Kepel, professor and chair of Middle East studies at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris and the author of Beyond Terror and Martyrdom: The Future of the Middle East (Belknap Press, 2008), calls for the West and the Middle East to go beyond their current views of ...

Gilles Kepel, professor and chair of middle east studies at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris and co-editor of Al Qaeda in its Own Words, talks about the evolution of Al Qaeda through some of the key texts of the major figures from whom Al Qaeda has drawn ...