SPRING 2008 • VOLUME 15: NUMBER 2

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FOCUS ON RADICAL ISLAM

Stephen Schwartz, Scientific Training and Radical Islam
Will terrorist doctors soon be the rule rather than the exception?

INTERVIEW: Mohamed Sifaoui: "I Consider Islamism to Be Fascism"
An Algerian journalist who infiltrated Al-Qaeda tells what he learned

TERRORIST GROUPS EVOLVE

Ido Zelkovitz, Fatah's Embrace of Islamism
Fatah's graphic art demonstrates its new Islamist identity

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Kyle Dabruzzi, Is Al-Qaeda's Central Leadership Still Relevant?
Reestablishment of a safe haven gives Al-Qaeda renewed potency

Irwin J. Mansdorf and Mordechai Kedar, The Psychological Asymmetry of Islamist Warfare
Terrorists use Israel's respect for human life to penalize the Jewish state

Nimrod Raphaeli and Bianca Gersten, Sovereign Wealth Funds: Investment Vehicles for the Persian Gulf Countries
Tiny emirates become huge global financial players

Diana Muir, "A Land without a People for a People without a Land"
An oft-cited Zionist slogan was neither Zionist nor popular

INTERVIEW

Daniel Nassif: "We Do Not Spread Propaganda for the United States"
Alhurra's news director describes the future of the U.S.-backed Arabic satellite channel

REVIEW ESSAY

Seth J. Frantzman, Flunking History: Ilan Pappé's The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
A "New Historian" twists facts to indict Israel

REVIEWS

Brief Reviews
Crusader castles .... Hezbollah ... Terror abductions ... Halabja ... Gertrude Bell ... World War IV

DISSIDENT WATCH

Nathaniel Rosenblatt, Abdul Rahman al-Lahim
A former Saudi Islamist risks his law license to defend a rape victim