On “Reading the Middle East with Gilles Kepel,” the latest Al-Monitor podcast, renowned French scholar Gilles Kepel interviews the ground-breaking authors and thought leaders who are both shaping and ...

Earlier this year, he bored into the controversy over “no-go” zones in Europe and found academic research, directed by the highly respected political scientist Giles Kepel, which documents ...

This “new frontier,” however, is colliding with the “return of the religious” in many societies, with what French political scientist Gilles Kepel has called “God’s Revenge,” 3 ...

they would become the foot soldiers of terrorism Gilles Kepel, The War for Muslim Minds, 2004 Not only will torture create a dedicated core of anti-American jihadists, their stories will lose us ...

“The Egyptians I lived with in Tahrir Square have nothing to do with the Egyptians I used to live with before the revolution," Aswany tells Gilles Kepel. "They are probably the same people, but ...

Israel attacks Hezbollah in Lebanon, sparking regional conflict. Iran retaliates, escalating tensions. The Middle East faces ...

In an interview, prominent French political scientist Gilles Kepel says the conflict between Israel and Iran will not turn into a major war, at least not before the U.S. elections. Moreover ...

Over almost a year of war in the Middle East, major powers have proved incapable of stopping or even significantly influencing the fighting, a failure that reflects a turbulent world of ...