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Ribale Sleiman-Haidar

March 10th, 2016

Engineers of Jihad – Interview with Steffen Hertog

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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

Ribale Sleiman-Haidar

March 10th, 2016

Engineers of Jihad – Interview with Steffen Hertog

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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

Steffen Hertog presents his new book,  Engineers of Jihad co-authored with Diego Gambetta. In the book, the authors uncover two unexpected facts about violent extremists: they find that a disproportionate share of Islamist radicals come from an engineering background, and that Islamist and right-wing extremism have more in common than either does with left-wing extremism, in which engineers are absent while social scientists and humanities students are prominent.


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