A longtime Cairo correspondent for the Associate Press and Washington correspondent for The Boston Globe, Anthony Shadid distills his years of experience with militant Islamic movements in his new book Legacy of the Prophet.
Admission is free and the public is encouraged to attend.
Courtesy of the UCSB Bookstore, books by Anthony Shadid will be available for purchase and signing at the event. As a result of the World Trade Center bombing, suicide attacks in Israel, the slaughter of tourists in Egypt and innocents in Algeria, Islam, one of the world's great religions, has become identified today with senseless bloodshed and its followers branded by the West as irrational fanatics with a penchant for violence. Drawing on his years of experience reporting in more than a dozen countries of the Muslim world, Shadid charts the striking way in which the adolescence of yesterday's Islamic militants is yielding to the maturity of today's activists. A crucial element of this change, according to Shadid, is the failure of militant Islam in countries like Sudan and Iran, defeats that ironically may help make way for an alternative, democratic future. The transformation promises a better future for a region long ruled by soldiers and despots.