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Mujahedeen rebels, holy warriors, are shown as they rest high in the mountains in the Kunar province area in Afghanistan in May 1980.

AP Photo

Seminar - Open to the Public

The Origins of Global Jihad: Explaining the Arab Mobilization to 1980s Afghanistan

Thu., Jan. 22, 2009 | 12:15pm - 2:00pm

Littauer Building - Belfer Center Library, Room 369

In the 1980s, thousands of Arabs volunteered to fight in Afghanistan against the Soviet occupation. Why had the Muslim world not seen private transnational mobilization for war before the 1980s? Who initiated and led the mobilization effort and why?

Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come-first served basis.