Abdel Bari Atwan je palestínsky spisovateľ a novinár, známy ako dlhoročný šéfredaktor londýnskych novín al-Quds al-Arabi. V súčasnosti vedie spravodajský web Rai al-Youm. Využíva svoje rozsiahle kontakty v rámci islamistických skupín, vrátane al-Káidy a IS, na písanie o kľúčových témach súčasného sveta. Jeho diela sa zameriavajú na hlboké pochopenie týchto organizácií a ich vplyvu na globálnu scénu.
An autobiography of newspaper editor Abdel Bari Atwan who recounts his many extraordinary encounters, including tea with Margaret Thatcher, his weekend with Osama bin Laden, intimate meetings with Yasser Arafat, and the row between Colonel Gaddafi and the Shah of Iran that earned him his first journalistic break.
As al-Qa'ida enters its third decade, journalist Abdel Bari Atwan investigates how it has survived all attempts to destroy it; evolving, instead, into a global actor with a rapidly expanding portfolio of franchises and a variety of, sometimes unexpected, alliances.