On Tuesday 13 February 2007 Peter Bergen, Schwartz Senior Fellow, will lead a discussion on "Al Qaeda Resurgent" from 1-2pm.
Peter Bergen is a print and television journalist, and the author of Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden (Free Press, 2001), which has been translated into 18 languages. A television documentary based on the book was nominated for an Emmy in 2002. The Washington Post, in reviewing his new book, The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of Al Qaeda’s Leader (Free Press, 2006), called it “a detailed, well-researched narrative that persuasively answers dozens of questions that are still painfully relevant today.” Mr Bergen is CNN’s terrorism analyst and an adjunct professor at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The New Republic, the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, the International Herald Tribune, Foreign Affairs, Rolling Stone, Washington Monthly, The Nation, The Times (UK), The Daily Telegraph (UK), The Guardian (UK), The Sunday Times (UK), and Prospect (UK). He is a member of the editorial board of Studies in Conflict and Terrorism and has testified on Capitol Hill. Mr Bergen holds a B.A. in modern history from New College, Oxford University.
As a Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, Mr Bergen researches and writes on the Al-Qaeda network and on the problem of global terrorism.
This meeting will take place at the IISS, Arundel House, 13-15 Arundel Street, WC2R 3DX.
