Reading List
Yosri Fouda
Egyptian Investigative Reporter and Television Host
Yosri Fouda is an Egyptian investigative reporter, author and television host. He joined Al Jazeera in 1996, set up its London office and hosted the monthly programme Top Secret. In 2002 he interviewed Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Ramzi bin al-Shibh, two planners of the 9/11 attacks, and he later wrote Masterminds of Terror with Nick Fielding. He left Al Jazeera in 2009 and went on to host the talk show Last Words on Egypt’s ONTV. His picks here come from a Five Books interview on 9/11: Peter Bergen’s The Osama bin Laden I Know, Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower, Karen Greenberg’s The Least Worst Place, Richard Clarke’s Against All Enemies and Peter Lance’s Cover Up.
Cover Up
What the Government Is Still Hiding About the War on Terror
by Peter Lance · 2005 · Journalism
“Lance compiles the missed opportunities and is trying to get someone to be accountable.” — via Interview, September 2009
Against All Enemies
Inside America's War on Terror
by Richard A. Clarke · 2004 · Current Affairs
“Richard Clarke was the man who ruled America on 9/11 when the rulers were all trying to hide underground.” — via Interview, September 2009
The Least Worst Place
Guantanamo's First 100 Days
by Karen J. Greenberg · 2009 · Current Affairs
“She tackles it from a legal point of view which is very interesting, what it means and how it is possible, if at all, to get out of this mess.” — via Interview, September 2009
The Looming Tower
by Lawrence Wright
“It is a vast research on how we arrived at 9/11, the circumstances and the mindset.” — via Interview, September 2009
The Osama bin Laden I Know
An Oral History of al Qaeda's Leader
by Peter Bergen · 2006 · History
“This book is a great reference when it comes to the mindset of al Qaeda.” — via Interview, September 2009
