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Suicide Bombings in Iraq: Understanding the Strategy and Ideology

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Event Date

  • 3/25/2008   6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
    Please arrive early for registration

Location

  • World Affairs Council Auditorium

Address

  • 312 Sutter Street
    Second Floor
    San Francisco, California 94108
Speaker(s)
Mohammed Hafez, Visiting Professor of Political Science, University of Missouri, Kansas City

Mohammed M. Hafez is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Missouri – Kansas City. He earned a BA in Political Science from the University of California at Los Angeles, an MA in International Relations from the University of Southern California, and a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Mohammed Hafez was a Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation fellow and a United States Information Agency fellow during 1998-1999. He has authored three books: Suicide Bombers in Iraq: The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom (2007), Manufacturing Human Bombs: The Making of Palestinian Suicide Bombers (2006), and Why Muslims Rebel: Repression and Resistance in the Islamic World (2003).

 

Event Details

Suicide bombers continue to kill in Baghdad to deliver the message that the surge will not bring victory for the US and stability for Iraqis. The attacks have a disproportionate impact on political developments in Iraq because of their targets, lethality, and psychological potency. According to Mohammed Hafez’s new book, Suicide Bombers in Iraq, the rate of suicide attacks in the Iraqi insurgency has surpassed the number of suicide operations by all previous insurgent groups combined, including those by Hezbollah in Lebanon, Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka, and Hamas in Israel. Delving deep into the Iraq insurgency, Dr. Hafez will join the Council to examine the history of suicide bombing in Iraq and across the globe, theoretical perspectives on suicide bombing, the varied factions that comprise the Iraq insurgency, the ideology and theology of martyrdom supporting suicide bombers, their national origins and characteristics, and the prospect for a “third generation” of transnational bombers forged in Iraq.

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