Links:

    -Fawaz A. Gerges - Faculty - Sarah Lawrence College
    -BOOK SITE: The Far Enemy (Cambridge University Press)
    -BOOK SITE: The Far Enemy (Written Voices)
    -EXCERPT: Prologue from The Far Enemy
    -ESSAY: The Iraq War: Planting the Seeds of Al Qaeda�s Second Generation (Fawaz Gerges)
    -ESSAY: Let Iraq's Sunnis chase Al Qaeda out (Fawaz A. Gerges, 12/15/05, CS Monitor)
    -ESSAY: Buried in Amman's Rubble: Zarqawi's Support (Fawaz Gerges, December 4, 2005, Washington Post)
    -ESSAY: Al Qaeda's Golden Opportunity: The continued occupation of Iraq has been a godsend for the otherwise troubled terrorist network (Fawaz A. Gerges, October 11, 2005, AlterNet)
    -ESSAY: Is Democracy in the Middle East a Pipedream?: Amidst the first signs of change, longing competes with mistrust of Western democracy (Fawaz Gerges, 25 April 2005, YaleGlobal)
    -ESSAY: Dismantling al-Qaida (Fawaz A. Gerges, November 23, 2003, Baltimore Sun)
    -ESSAY: Democracy in the Middle East: Disentangling Myth from Reality (Dr. Fawaz Gerges, ISPU)
    -ESSAY: What's Behind the New Arab Momentum (Fawaz Gerges, March 15, 2002, NY Times)
    -LECTURE: Fawaz Gerges on the Iraq war in Arab and American Media: The keynote speech delivered by Fawaz Gerges at the conference "New Media and New Teaching for the Middle East and North Africa" in June 2004
    -CHAT: "The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global": Fawaz Gerges (Washington Post, October 10, 2005)
    -AUDIO INTERVIEW: New Look at Islam (OnPoint, May 10, 2005)
    -AUDIO INTERVIEW: Jordan Says Bombings Point to Al Qaeda (All Things Considered, November 12, 2005)
    -DISCUSSION: War against Radical Islamists (CNNfn: Lou Dobbs Moneyline, June 13, 2002)
    -INTERVIEW: Interview with Fawaz Gerges (CNN SATURDAY MORNING NEWS, August 9, 2003)
    -INTERVIEW: Young, Muslim, and French: with Fawaz Gerges (WideAngle, August 26, 2004, PBS)
    -INTERVIEW: A change of Arab hearts and minds: Amid gloom, a scholar glimpses signs of democratic awakening: Fawaz Gerges, a professor of Middle East and international affairs at Sarah Lawrence College, has traveled the Arab world during the past five years, researching social and political movements. Behind what is seen from the West as a violent caldron of anti-American Islamism, Dr. Gerges sees signs of a nascent era of civic opening in the Middle East. If cultivated wisely by the US, he says, this movement could actually become something genuinely democratic. Monitor editors interviewed Gerges last week - excerpts follow (CS Monitor, 2/04/04)
    -CHAT: War in Iraq: With Fawaz Gerges (Washington Post, April 3, 2003)
    -INTERVIEW: One on One with Saddam (On the Media, February 7, 2003, NPR)
    -INTERVIEW: Global Q & A: A New Arab Consensus ?: Interview with Dr. Fawaz Gerges (FPA, March 25, 2002)
    -ARCHIVES: "fawaz gerges" (NPR)
    -ESSAY: [Middle East Scholars:] Getting it Wrong in the Middle East (Daniel Pipes, November 5, 2001, New York Post)
    -PROFILE: Who Is Fawaz Gerges?: Another problem Mideast scholar. (Jonathan Calt Harris, July 21, 2003, National Review)

Fawaz Gerges, professor of Middle East studies at Sarah Lawrence College in New York, has emerged as a foremost media interpreter of the Middle East. He is a frequent guest of Paula Zahn on CNN, has appeared recently on The Charlie Rose Show and The Oprah Winfrey Show, and is now a regular Middle East analyst for ABC News.

Gerges is typical of his field: He's yet another Middle East specialist who minimizes the threat of militant Islam while presenting the United States as a sinister force. Let's look at his thinking on four key issues. [...]

Militant Islam. Gerges consistently downplays the threat of militant Islam in general and Osama bin Laden in particular. One year before 9/11, he found that Osama bin Laden was "exceptionally isolated," and "preoccupied mainly with survival, not attacking American targets." He also ridiculed "exaggerated rhetoric" in Washington about the Bin Laden threat. Al Qaeda was no longer more than a "shadow of its former self," Gerges had the misfortune of writing, as bin Laden was "confined to Afghanistan, constantly on the run," and, "hemmed in by the United States, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt." Not just that, but his "resources are depleting rapidly." Gerges drew the bizarre conclusion that the U.S. government must have its reasons for "inflating his importance." Six months before 9/11, Gerges publicly ridiculed what he called "the terror industry" � his term for specialists voicing concerns about militant Islam � for fomenting an "irrational fear of terrorism by focusing too much on far-fetched horrible scenarios."

    -ESSAY: Terror's Academic Sympathizers (Leslie Carbone, December 9, 2002, FrontPageMagazine.com)
    -REVIEW: of The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global By Fawaz A. Gerges (Steven Martinovich, Enter Stage Right)
    -REVIEW: of The Far Enemy (Jordan Michael Smith, Embassy)
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    -REVIEW: of The Far Enemy (Pete Blackwell, BlogCritics)
    -REVIEW: of America and Political Islam: Clash of Cultures or Clash of Interests? by Fawaz A. Gerges (Daniel Pipes, Middle East Quarterly)
    -REVIEW: of America and Political Islam: Clash of Cultures or Clash of Interests? (Nadia Abou El-Magd, Al-Ahram)
    -REVIEW: of America and Political Islam (JAVED ALI, Milli Gazette)
    -REVIEW: of The Superpowers and the Middle East: Regional and International Politics, 1955-1967 by Fawaz A. Gerges (Daniel Pipes, Middle East Quarterly)