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Terror in France: the rise of Jihad in the West

Hosted by the LSE IDEAS

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Speaker

Professor Gilles Kepel

Chair

Hugh Sandeman

As the elections in France, which took place right after another jihadi attack in Paris, show how polarised the country has become Gilles Kepel will provide fresh insight for anyone interested in France today.

Do recent ISIS inspired terror attacks in France represent an outbreak of violence that has long been building? In this lecture, author and terrorism expert Gilles Kepel reveals the truth about the virulent new wave of jihadism that has Europe as its main target. Its aim is to divide European societies from within by instilling fear, provoking backlash, and achieving the ISIS dream - shared by Europe's Far Right - of separating Europe's growing Muslim minority community from the rest of its citizens. 

Gilles Kepel is a professor of political science at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. His books include Beyond Terror and Martyrdom: The Future of the Middle East, The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West, and Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam.

Hugh Sandeman is Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE IDEAS.

LSE IDEAS (@lseideas) is an IGA Centre that acts as the School’s foreign policy think tank.

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