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Dr. Jonathan Brown

Professor of Islamic Civilization

Dr. Jonathan Brown

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Medina Attack

In The Media Medina Attack

NPR: Monday’s Attack In Medina ‘An Attack On The Soul Of The Muslim World’

August 3, 2016

Monday’s bombing in the Saudi city of Medina stands out, even among the wave of terrorist attacks in recent days. It wasn’t the death toll. It didn’t produce the scenes of carnage like Saturday’s bombing in Baghdad that killed nearly 200 people or last week’s attack on the airport in Istanbul that left 44 dead.…

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Dr. Jonathan Brown at Cambridge

Jonathan Brown is the Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He received his BA in History from Georgetown University in 2000 and his doctorate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago in 2006. Dr. Brown has studied and conducted research in countries such as Egypt, Syria, Turkey, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, South Africa, India, Indonesia and Iran. More →

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