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About the Author<br />

Shiraz Maher is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for the Study<br />

of Radicalisation (ICSR), Kings College London. He is currently writing an<br />

intellectual history of al-Qaeda, exploring the development of its political thought<br />

by drawing on hitherto unexamined material. Prior to joining ICSR, Maher<br />

worked as a Senior Fellow at Policy Exchange.<br />

Maher was previously a journalist reporting on terrorism, radicalisation and<br />

the Middle East. He has interviewed members of al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia for the<br />

BBC and has embedded with the Pakistan Army, accompanying them on missions<br />

against the Pakistani Taliban in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas along the<br />

Afghan border. Most recently he reported on the Egyptian revolution, spending<br />

time in Tahrir Square with protesters and opposition leaders.<br />

He is on the advisory board of the Institute for Middle East Democracy, and<br />

Student Rights, a non-partisan group dedicated to supporting equality, democracy<br />

and freedom from extremism on university campuses.<br />

Maher holds degrees in History from the University of Leeds, and Cambridge<br />

University.<br />

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