Issues on Terrorism and Peace Tackled in Xlibris Release

PR Log (Press Release) – Nov 05, 2007 – The War on Terrorism continues both in American shores and abroad, but as the fighting goes on at the battlefront, another fierce war rages in the halls of several august institutions through heated debate.

As scholars and advocates alike struggle to find meaning and closure to the occurrence of situations that gave rise to this War on Terror, one academician decided to put their ideas together in a compelling anthology. The result of this endeavor is the book, “Unveiling the Real Terrorist Mind”.

Unveiling the Real Terrorist Mind is an interdisciplinary compilation of fresh perspectives that tackle several issues related to terrorism in today’s world and the search for peace. Bringing these articles together is the anthology’s editor, Nadia Batool Ahmad, herself a professor and a staunch peace advocate.

Contributing their thoughts to Unveiling the Real Terrorist Mind are luminaries in their respective fields. This roster of authors includes Nobel Laureate Betty Williams, NYU law professor Derrick Bell, MIT professor Noam Chomsky, CSU Long Beach professor Maulana Karenga, Temple University professor Molefi Kete Asante, Georgetown professor John Esposito, author Howard Zinn, author Ishmael Reed, author Michael Parenti, human rights activist Sara Flounders, former U.S. Congressman Paul Findley, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, 2006 U.S. Congressional candidate Bob Bowman, and many other exciting authors.

Apart from enlightening articles that explore issues of terrorism, genocide, race, and war, Unveiling the Real Terrorist Mind also has several pro-peace essays and poems to balance the peace equation with spurts of creative artistry.

Unveiling the Real Terrorist Mind is a book that will not only shock readers into the reality of terrorism in society, but will also elicit a more powerful need for each individual to strive for peace even in the darkest of times.


About the Editor
Nadia Batool Ahmad has an illustrious career in the academe. She graduated from UC Berkeley, majoring in Comparative Literature. She then proceeded to law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. She is now in active legal practice specializing in deportation defense, asylum, antitrust litigation, international banking and finance, and media-related matters.

After the harrowing events of 9/11 transpired, Ahmad founded the Students for International Peace and Justice, a pro-peace group.

Ahmad has been constantly striving to bring her peace advocacy everywhere through various venues. In fact, royalties for Unveiling the Real Terrorist Mind are to be donated to the People’s Right Fund Inc., a New York City-based non-profit organization, which provides funding for educational programs on peace, civil rights, civil liberties, economic inequality, anti-repression, and social justice issues.