Foregrounding the Muslim periphery (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate) |
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| Authors: | Jonathan Benthall |
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| Affiliation: | Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, University College London. He reviewed Akbar Ahmed's documentary film Journey into America in AT. He is co‐editor, with Robert Lacey, of Gulf charities and Islamic philanthropy in the ‘age of terror’ and beyond (Gerlach Press, forthcoming). His email is jonathanbenthall@hotmail.com. |
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| Abstract: | This guest editorial considers the implications of Akbar Ahmed's latest book –The Thistle and the Drone: How America's war on terror became a global war on tribal Islam, which was the centrepiece of several panel discussions in London. |
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