Live at 3 p.m. EST: A Conversation with Hugh Pope, author of "Dining With al Qaeda"

Posted By Joshua Keating Wednesday, March 31, 2010 - 2:46 PM Share

Hugh Pope’s recently released book Dining with al-Qaeda is a memoir of three decades spent in the Middle East, starting as a naive and romantic student of Persian and Arabic, learning the hard way about the region's concrete cities, wars and dislocation, and then finding it impossible to convey this reality to readers of American newspapers. A longtime foreign correspondent in the region, most recently with the Wall Street Journal, Pope presents his modern-day explorations of the politics, religion, and aspirations of Muslim peoples—mined from libraries, bazaars and war fronts—and shows how the Middle East is much more than a monolithic "Islamic World."

At 3 p.m. today, please join the New America Foundation’s Middle East Task Force, the International Crisis Group and Foreign Policy magazine in co-hosting this conversation with Mr. Pope, where he will both discuss his new book and offer some commentary about the ongoing issues affecting this region of the world. An excerpt of the book will also be appearing on the site later this week. 

FP Executive Editor Susan Glasser will moderate the discussion and you can watch the whole thing here: 

 

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