Mind Wars

Gilles Kepel’s ideas about the Middle East have always intrigued me, and David Ignatius, in today’s Washington Post, writes an opinion piece about Kepel’s newest book. The opinion piece is worth reading and, I imagine, so is Kepel’s book, The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West.

Author: Peter Maass

I was born and raised in Los Angeles. In 1983, after graduating from the University of California at Berkeley, I went to Brussels as a copy editor for The Wall Street Journal/Europe. I left the Journal in 1985 to write for The New York Times and The International Herald Tribune, covering NATO and the European Union. In 1987 I moved to Seoul, South Korea, where I wrote primarily for The Washington Post. After three years in Asia I moved to Budapest to cover Eastern Europe and the Balkans. I spent most of 1992 and 1993 covering the war in Bosnia for the Post.