Lawrence Wright shows the human side of Middle East turmoil in ‘The Terror Years’
The Terror Years , Lawrence Wright’s wide-ranging and intensively reported collection of stories on the Middle East in the 9/11 age, begins with a pair of masterful profiles. The first, “The Man Behind Bin Laden,” tracks the upbringing and radicalization of Ayman al-Zawahiri, the current leader of al-Qaeda.
Lawrence Wright’s new book: