Abdel Bari Atwan es un escritor y periodista palestino, reconocido por su extensa trayectoria como editor en jefe del periódico Al-Quds Al-Arabi, con sede en Londres. Actualmente dirige el sitio web de noticias Rai al-Youm. Atwan recurre a sus fuentes, profundamente cultivadas dentro de grupos islamistas, incluyendo Al-Qaeda e IS, para escribir con autoridad sobre temas contemporáneos cruciales. Su trabajo ofrece perspectivas únicas sobre estas organizaciones y su profundo impacto global.
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.