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What drives young men and women to become suicide bombers? Farhad Khosrokhavar examines differing attitudes towards the 'sacred death' in various Islamic countries, including Iran, Palestine, Lebanon and Egypt.
In the western media, the suicide bomber has become a familiar image in newspapers and on television. In Palestine, Iraq, Saudia Arabia, Indonesia and elsewhere, the results of suicide bombing have been devastating.
Now director of Studies at the EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) in France, Farhad Khosrokhavar was an Associate Professor at the Center for Science Policy for the Ministry of Culture and Higher Education in Teheran, Iran. A specialist of the Iranian Revolution, and of Islam fundamentalism, his latest book Les nouveaux martyrs d’Allah , (2003) has just been published in English at the University of Michigan Press.
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