holocausts

Gilles Kepel

(Éditions Plon, 216 pages, 2024)

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October 7. 2023, how can we decipher the information that daily surges about this conflict? How can we understand the whole problem of this new chapter of History that is nevertheless playing out before our eyes?

Gilles Kepel, one of the best experts in the Arab world and the Middle East, shows how the raid of last October 7, is part of an ancestral tradition, which became the modus operandi of the Arab-Islamic conquest since the Middle Age till the attacks of September 2001.

He draws on his long years of investigations, analyzes and observations to embrace the entirety of the subject with unrivaled authority and erudition.

In 4 chapters only, he delivers a complete, uncompromising analysis of the real ins and outs of this drama so that everyone can grasp his own keys of understanding.

This didactic essay, with an informative purpose, is aimed at a wide audience, curious to understand the situation of a region where anything seems to be able to happen.

Gilles Kepel is chair of Mediterranean and Middle East studies at École Normale Supérieure in Paris and former special envoy of President Emmanuel Macron of France. He contributes to Al-Monitor and is the author of many acclaimed books, including Away from Chaos. The Middle East and the Challenge to the West (Columbia University Press, 2023.)