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Al-Qaeda since 9/11

Dr Alia Brahimi is a Research Fellow in the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit at the London School of Economics. This article is an updated version of Dr Brahimi’s remarks for a symposium on ‘9/11: Ten Years On’, hosted by the British Academy on 2 September 2011.

• Alia Brahimi

The whole article can be downloaded as a PDF file.

Published in British Academy Review, No. 19 (January 2012).

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