Episode: 389. Road To 9/11: Origin of Al-Qaeda (Part 1)
Pub date: 2026-08-23
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What were the building blocks of the rise of Radical Islamism that paved the road to the 9/11 terror attacks? How did the torture of radical members of the Muslim Brotherhood fan the flames of Islamist thought in the 1960s? Who were Sayyid Qutb and Ayman al-Zawahiri, and how did their experience in Egyptian prisons lead to the rise of extremist ideologies?
In Episode 1 of this new series, William Dalrymple is joined by Jason Burke, author of Al-Qaeda: Casting a Shadow of Terror and The Revolutionists, to discuss the seeds of Islamic terrorism.
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