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Free and Open to the Public
Location: Langford Auditorium (Google map of this location)

Project Dialogue presents: "My Trip to al-Qaeda with Lawrence Wright"

Screening of the HBO documentary and Panel Discussion

Reception and book signing to follow
 

In 2006, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lawrence Wright staged “My Trip to al-Qaeda,” a one-man play that explored the moral dilemmas he encounter while researching his bestselling book “The Looming Tower: al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11.”

Now Academy Award winner Alex Gibney (”Taxi to the Dark Side”) brings Wright’s off-Broadway show to the screen chronicling fundamentalist Islam’s rise to power, as well as Wright’ struggle to maintain objectivity as a journalist in the wake of 9/11.

A firsthand account of Wright’s experience researching his 2006 book “The Looming Tower: al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11,” “My Trip to al-Qaeda” sheds important light on al-Qaeda, Islamic radicalism, hostility to America and the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Middle East overall.

The riveting travelogue/performance piece combines Wright’s first-person narrative with documentary footage and photographs, while raising important questions about the war on terrorism, and whether the U.S. stance as a role model is justified.

Co sponsors: OACS, DOS, and The Commons