Lawrence Wright on terror and 9/11 at 15

Tuesday, September 13, 2016 7:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck Center​In ten powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker, Pulitzer Prize winner Lawrence Wright recalls the path that terror in the Middle East has taken, from the rise of al-Qaeda in the 1990s to the recent beheadings of reporters and aid workers by ISIS.  On the fifteenth anniversary of 9/11, The Terror Years is at once a unifying recollection of the roots of contemporary Middle Eastern terrorism, a study of how it has